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| Britain's law-making assembly; they passed the Stamp Act to pay off the French and Indian War debts |
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| British leader who wanted to tax the colonists to help pay for the French and Indian War |
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| law that placed a tax on printed materials in the colonies, such as legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards; this was done to pay off debts from the French and Indian War |
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| No taxation without representation! |
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| popular protest cry; the colonists felt that Parliament had no right to tax them since they had no representation in Parliament |
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| young Virginia lawyer whose fiery speeches in defense of colonists' rights inspired other colonists to protest the Stamp Act |
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| meeting in New York City of colonial leaders urging Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act |
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| cancel; the colonists wanted Parliament to do this to the Stamp Act |
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| colonial leader who organized the Sons of Liberty to lead protests against the Stamp Act |
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| group of colonists that led protests against the Stamp Act; their goal was to scare stamp agents, and it worked! |
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| laws passed by Parliament that placed a tariff on paper, wool, tea, and other goods that the colonies imported from Britain |
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| writer who encouraged colonists to boycott British goods |
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| group of women who helped boycott British goods by weaving their own cloth |
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| fighting between the British and unarmed colonists in Boston in which the British killed 5 people |
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| an escaped slave who died at the Boston Massacre; he died for American freedom although he had no freedom himself! |
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| Committee of Correspondence |
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| method of communication between the colonists; members would correspond, or write, to each other about British actions and express riders would take the letters from city to city |
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| express rider for the Committee of Correspondence; he later became famous for riding to Lexington to warn the colonists that the British were coming |
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| law passed by Parliament that said that only the East India Company would be allowed to sell tea to the colonies and colonists would still have to pay the tea tax |
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| colonial protest against the Tea Act in which the Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawk Indians and dumped British tea into Boston Harbor |
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| laws passed by Parliament punishing the colonists for the Boston Tea Party: 1. colonists were forced to quarter British soldiers in Boston, 2. Massachusetts was put under the control of Thomas Gage, and 3. Boston Harbor was closed until colonists paid for the tea they had destroyed; these had the effect of uniting the colonists against Britain |
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| First Continental Congress |
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| meeting in Philadelphia of colonial representatives to decide what to do about the Intolerable Acts; they decided to stop all trade with Britain, start training militias, and meet again in one year |
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| militia groups who could be ready to fight at a minute's notice |
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| fiery speaker whose "give me liberty or give me death" speech inspired colonists to fight for freedom from Britain |
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| Samuel Adams and John Hancock |
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| Patriot leaders that the British tried to capture in Lexington |
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| Revere, Dawes, and Prescott |
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| colonists who rode to Lexington to spread the news that the British were coming |
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| The Battles of Lexington and Concord |
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| the first fighting between British soldiers and colonial militia; Britain won the Battle of Lexington but were forced to retreat to Boston after fighting in Concord; this was the start of the American Revolution |
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| war Americans fought for independence from Britain; started with the Battle of Lexington |
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| Battle of Bunker (Breed's) Hill |
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| fighting between British soldiers and colonial militia to try to force the British out of Boston; the British won but the colonists were proud of the way they had fought |
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| Patriot colonel at the Battle of Bunker Hill; "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes." |
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