An overthrow and replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.

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; 30-130 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.

A radical political organization for colonial independence which formed in 1765 after the passage of the Stamp Act. The Sons leaders included Samuel Adams and Paul Revere.

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.

A body of representatives that makes laws for a nation

To cancel a law.

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 (1765).

(1764) British Parliament (deeply in debt partly to French & Indian War) placed a tariff 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.

Permission to do something.

Brought in from another country.

Open defiance of authority.

A small booklet or leaflet containing information or arguments about a single subject.