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| 11362769188 | Sugar Act of 1764 | British law that decreased the duty on French molasses. The act enraged New England merchants who opposed the tax. | 0 | |
| 11362769189 | vice-admiralty courts | a maritime court presided over a royally appointed judge, with no jury. | 1 | |
| 11362769190 | Stamp Act of 1765 | British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies. Resistance led to its early repeal in 1766. | 2 | |
| 11362769191 | virtual representation | claim made by British politicians that the interests of the colonists were fairly represented in Parliament | 3 | |
| 11362769192 | Quartering Act of 1765 | British law passed by Parliament that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops | 4 | |
| 11362769193 | Stamp Act Congress | congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 that challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts | 5 | |
| 11362769194 | Sons of Liberty | colonists who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s | 6 | |
| 11362769195 | English common law | English body of legal rules that protected the lives and property of the monarch's subjects | 7 | |
| 11362769196 | natural rights | the rights to life, liberty, and property | 8 | |
| 11362769197 | Declaratory Act of 1766 | British law that asserted Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies | 9 | |
| 11362769198 | Townshend Act of 1767 | British law that established new duties on tea, glass, lead, paper, and painters' color. This led to boycotts and heightened tensions. | 10 | |
| 11362769199 | nonimportation movement | the pressuring of colonial merchants to stop importing British goods by colonial radicals | 11 | |
| 11362769200 | committees of correspondence | a communications network established in the colonies to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments | 12 | |
| 11362769201 | Tea Act of May 1773 | British act that lowered the existing tax on tea. Resistance to the Tea Act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts | 13 | |
| 11362769202 | Coercive Acts | four British acts in 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for its rebellious behavior. Led to open and stronger rebellion. | 14 | |
| 11362769203 | Continental Congress | September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the Coercive Acts. The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain | 15 | |
| 11362769204 | Continental Association | association established by the First Continental Congress to impose its boycott on English goods | 16 | |
| 11362769205 | Dunmore's War | 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor against the Ohio Shawnees. The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia claimed Kentucky as their own | 17 | |
| 11362769206 | Minutemen | colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s | 18 | |
| 11362769207 | Second Continental Congress | legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 to the end of the war | 19 | |
| 11362769208 | Declaration of Independence | a document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain. It was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776 | 20 | |
| 11362769209 | popular sovereignty | the principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate | 21 | |
| 11362769210 | George Grenville | British economist who passed the Currency and Sugar Act of 1764 | 22 | |
| 11362769211 | John Dickinson | colonist who wrote Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania which served as an early call for resistance | 23 | |
| 11362769212 | Charles Townshend | William Pitt's successor who passed the Townshend Act of 1767 | 24 | |
| 11362769213 | Lord North | British politician who tried to compromise the Townshend acts to help the colonists | 25 | |
| 11362769214 | Samuel Adams | Boston propagandist who was fiercely against the British by organizing committees of correspondence in Massachusetts | 26 | |
| 11362769215 | Lord Dunmore | royal governor of Virginia who fought the Ohio Shawnees in Kentucky. The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore claimed Kentucky as his own. | 27 | |
| 11362769216 | Thomas Paine | wrote Common Sense, which was a call for independence and a republican form of government | 28 | |
| 11362769217 | Thomas Jefferson | main author of the Declaration of Independence who proclaimed a series of "self-evident" truths and established the defining political values of the new nation | 29 |
