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| stories or images designed to support a particular point of view |
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| refusal to buy goods,oftenly used to protest movements |
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| colonial militia men, ready in a minute's notice |
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| hit-and-run military attack tactic |
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| American colonist soldiers |
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| colonists who sided with Britain |
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| surround opposing group in battle |
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| protester against British--Boston Massacare, cousin of John Adams |
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| agreed to defend soliders, cousin of Sam Adams |
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| main author of the Declaration of Independence |
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| Thomas Paine - Common Sense(pamphlet) |
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| argued for indepedence, written in common language(sells well) |
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| (French) will become an assistant to Washington and his Troops |
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| will train colonial soliders(Prussian) |
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| led patriots during War in the West |
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| Francis Marion "Swamp Fox" |
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| most successful patriot leader |
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| replaced the molasses Act, aimed specifically at raising revenues from the colonies |
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| Committees of Corespondence |
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| to help unite protesters, contacted other towns and colonies to share ideas and information about the new British laws and ways to challenge them |
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| required colonists to purchase a stamp for newspapers, pamplets, legal documents, and other items |
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| secret societies, used violence to frighten tax collectors |
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| placed duties on imported glass, lead, paintgs, paper, and tea; made it easier for tax collectors to get writs of assistance |
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| special search warrants allowingn tax collectors to search for smuggled goods |
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| British soliders fired into a crowd of colonists |
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| kept duties on imported tea in place, allowed British East India Company to directley export to the colonies |
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| protest against the Tea Act, group of colonists dumped 340+ chests of tea into the Boston Harbor from British tea ships |
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| closed Boston Harbor, canceled Massachusetts's charter, moved trials of colonial officials to Britain, allowed new Quartering act and Quebec act, gave Cnaada control of Ohio region |
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| First Continental Congress |
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| decide how to handle increased British taxation and abuses by British autorities |
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| Second Continental Congress |
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| decide how to react to fighting at Lexington and Concord |
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