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8 Cards in this Set
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Minutemen
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group of armed civilians, trained to be ready to fight "at a minute's warning"
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Intolerable Acts
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series of laws, known in Britain as the Coercive Acts, meant to punish Massachusetts and clamp down on resistance in other colonies
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First Continental Congress
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meeting of delegates from most of the colonies, called in reaction to the Intolerable Acts
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Paul Revere
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Boston silversmith who rode into the countryside to spread news of British troop movement
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Lexington and Concord
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first battles of the Revolutionary War
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Loyalists
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Americans who supported the British
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Patriots
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Americans who sided with the rebels
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militia
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a force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community
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