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| sailor of African-American and Native American ancestry who died at the Boston Massacre |
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| incident in 1770 in which British troops fired on and killed American colonists |
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| acts passed by Parliament in 1767 to tax imports in the colonies |
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| search warrants used to enter homes or businesses to search for smuggled goods |
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| organization of colonial women formed to protest British policies |
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| leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty |
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| committee of correspondence |
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| organization formed to exchange information about British policies and American resistance |
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| incident in 1773, when colonists protested British policies by boarding British ships and throwing their cargoes of tea overboard |
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| taxes placed on imported goods |
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| lawyer who defended British soldiers accused of murder in the Boston Massacre |
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