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Patriots
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A person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Franklin, Benjamin (1706-90), American statesman, inventor, and scientist. He was the only individual to sign all three principal documents of the new nation: the Declaration of Independence, the treaty with Great Britain that ended the American Revolution, and the U.S. Constitution. His main scientific achievements were the formulation of a theory of electricity, which introduced positive and negative electricity, and a demonstration of the electrical nature of lighting, which to the invention of the lighting conductor.
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Committees of Correspondence
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Loyalists
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A person who remains loyal to the established ruler or government, esp. in the face of a revolt.
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Tyranny
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Cruel and oppressive government or rule.
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Boston Tea Party
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A violent demonstration in 1773 by American colonists before the American Revolution. Colonists boarded vessels in Boston harbor and threw the cargoes of tea into the water in protest at the imposition of a tax on a tea by the British Parliament, in which the colonists had no representation.
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First Continental Congress
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Paul Revere
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Revere, Paul (1735-1818), American silversmith and patriot. In 1775 he rode from Boston to Lexington to warn fellow American revolutionaries of the approach of British troops. He is the subject of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem " Paul Revere's Ride" (1863)
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Lexington and Concord
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Minutemen
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In the period preceding and during the American Revolution) a member of a class of American militiamen who volunteered to be read for service at a minute's notice.
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Thomas Paine
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Paine, Thomas ( 1737-1809), English political writer. His pamphlet Common Sense (1776) called for American Independence, and The righto
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Common Sense
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Thomas Jefferson
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John Hancock
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Declaration of Independence
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