Colonial Resistance Grows

Legal document that enabled officers to search colonial homes and warehouses for goods that might be smuggled.

An incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists who were teasing and taunting them; five colonists were killed.

Colonial response to the Tea Act; colonists - dressed as Indians - boarded British ships and dumped the tea into Boston Harbor.

Series of laws passed in 1774 to punish Boston residents for the Tea Party.

An organization that spread political ideas and information through the colonies.

British soldiers who fought against the colonists in the American Revolution.

A group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies.

American Revolutionary leader and patriot, Founder of the Sons of Liberty; signed the Declaration of Independence

A tax that the British Parliament passed in 1767 that was placed on leads, glass, paint and tea.

Opposition between individuals or groups; stress.

Colonists who supported the British government during the American Revolution

American colonists who were determined to fight the British until American independence was won

Required the colonials to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies.

British Parliament placed a tax on sugar, coffee, wines, molasses and other items.

A free black man who was the first person killed in the Revolution at the Boston Massacre.