All terms in this list:

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

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

Quartering Act: Act requiring the colonist to quarter, or house, British soldiers and provide them with supplies

Sons of Liberty: Secret society formed to protest British policies

Proclamations of 1763: British proclamation that forbade the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains

Boston Massacre: Incident in 1770 in 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 of tea overvoard

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

Declaration of Indepence: Document that declared American independence from Britain

Common Sense: Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that moved many colonists toward revoloution