Matching Pairs The American RevolutionOnline version Match some of the most important concepts about the topic with their definitions by Valeria Ramírez Pino 1 Boston Tea Party 2 Patriots 3 Revolution 4 Loyalists 5 Declaration of Independence 6 Independence 7 Tax Protest against British taxation in which colonists dumped tea into the harbor freedom from the control, influence, support, aid, or the like, of others the colonists living in the British North American colonies who rebelled against the authority of the crown a sum of money paid to a government for its support, based on income, etc. a complete overthrow and replacement of an established government by force Document that declared the American colonies' independence from Britain those who lived in the colonies and remained faithful to the Crown