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| An agreement to act together in a cause. |
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| Law that said colonists could not settle west of the Appalachain Mountains. |
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| The first attempt of Britain to tax the colonists directly. A tax on all legal (paper) documents. |
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| Mostly lawyers, merchants, and Artisans who were most affected by the Stamp Act. |
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| Plan to tax the colonies "without offense". Closed down the assembly. |
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| A legal paper that gave officers the right to search any building for any reason. |
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| Information designed to influence people's thinking or behavior. |
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| The shooting that killed Crispus Attucks and 4 other men because they were taunting the British. |
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| Colonists dressed up as Indians and dumped all the tea off of the British ships and into the Boston Harbor. |
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Harsh laws that restricted the rights of colonists.
(They closed the port of Boston, restricted government, allowed British soldiers to be housed wherever they chose, and allowed British officials to be trialed in Boston.) |
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| First Continental Congress |
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| Delegates from the committees of correspondence that gathered to vote for laws. |
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| An army of ordinary citizens rather than professional soldiers. |
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| What the colonial militias were called because they needed to be ready on a minute's notice. |
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| Americans who feared revolution and supported the Britsih. |
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| Those who sided with the minutemen. |
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| Second Continental Congress |
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| A congress that met to vote on if we went to war or not. |
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| Declaration of Independece |
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| A document declaring our independence from Britain. Signed July 4, 1776. |
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