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| group of armed civilans, trained to be ready to fight "at a minute's warning" |
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| series of laws, known in Britian as the Coercive Acts, meant to punish Massachusetts and clamp down on resistance in other colonies |
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| First Continental Congress |
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| meeting of delegates from most of the colonies, called in reaction to the Intolerable Acts |
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| Boston silversmith who rode into the countryside to spread news of British troop movement |
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| first battles of the Revolutionary War |
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| Americans who supported the British |
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| Americans who sided with the rebels |
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| a force of armed civilans pledged to defend their community |
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