Answer: *This was a tax on all paper goods: Stamp Act.
*The Quartering Act forced the colonists to provide housing for British soldiers.
*The Townshend Act was a tax on finished goods like glass, lead, paper and tea. Colonists used the Sons of Liberty as propaganda to gain support for independence.
*The Boston Tea Party was one example of how the colonists protested British goods.
*What the British called the Coercive Acts, the Americans call the Intolerable Acts and these were a collection of laws that closed Boston Harbor, banned town meetings and sent British officials to England for trials.
*The First Continental Congress was a gathering of delegates who got together in Philadelphia to decide what to do about the British.
*The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the "first shots" of the American Revolution.
*This extremely popular pamphlet titled Common Sense written by Thomas Paine pushed the colonists to declare independence from Great Britain.
*To cancel or get rid of an act/law was to repeal it.
*A 'duty' is another name for a tax.