All terms in this list:

Stamp Act: Law requiring all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that tax had been paid

Sugar Act: Law placing a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies

Quartering Act: Act requiring the colonies to quarter, or house, British soldiers and provide them food

Sons of Liberty: Secret society formed to protest British policies

Proclamation of 1763: British proclamation that forbade(prohibited) the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains

Boston Massacre: Incident in 1770 in which British troops fired on and killed American colonists

Tea Act: British law giving one company, the East India Company, the exclusive right to sell tea in the colonies.

Boston Tea Party: Incident in 1773, when colonists protested British policies by boarding British ships and throwing their cargoes tea overboard.

Intolerable Acts: Series of laws, know in Britian as to Coercive Acts meant to punish Boston and clamp down on resistance in other colonies

Common Sense: Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine moved many colonists toward revolution.

Declaration of Independence: Document that declared American independence from Britain.