All terms in this list:

Stamp Act: Law requiring all legal and commercial documents to carry and official stamp showing that a 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 colonists to quarter, or house, British soldiers and provide them with supplies.

Sons of Liberty: Secret society formed to protest British policies

Proclamation of 1763: British proclamation that forbade 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 tot 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 overboard.

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