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| A secret organization of patriots that organized communications and protests against British rule in the colonies |
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| An all female organization of colonists that organized boycotts against British goods and provided homemade materials for the colonies during the Revolutionary War. |
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| Committees of Correspondence |
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| Groups that organized written communications during the American Revolution to unite the colonies against England. |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| Document constructed by 5 members of the 2nd Continental Congress that listed many grievances the colonies had with Britain and declared the colonies independent states. |
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| Colonist that strongly supported the ideas of the Enlightenment and promoted these ideas through his pamphlet titled Common Sense. |
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| Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that put in very plain, everyday language the problems with British rule and the benefits of self-government |
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