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occupy
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take control of a place by military conquest or settlement
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Boston Massacre
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March 5, 1770; angry Bostonians approached customhouse and taunted British troops verbally and physically; after a British soldier was knocked down they fired into the crowd killing five colonists
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Crispus Attucks
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killed in the Boston Massacre; dockworker; African and Native American ancestry
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propaganda
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information made to influence public opinion
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committee of correspondence
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an organization that spread political ideas through the colonies
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Tea Act
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passed by Parliament in 1773; gave British East India Company a monopoly on the trade of tea in the colonies
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Boston Tea Party
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December 16, 1773; defiant colonists disguised as Native Americans threw hundreds of chests of tea in Boston Harbor; they were protesting how the British government gave the East India Company the right to sell tea directly to the colonies, which undercut American merchants
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King George III
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King of Britain during the American Revolution; stubbornness of George and his government officials is often blamed for the loss of the Thirteen Colonies
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Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)
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British laws passed in 1774; intended to punish the colonists in Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party; closed Boston Harbor; banned town meetings; forced Bostonians to shelter British soldiers
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