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Stamp Act |
law passed by parliament to make colonist buy a stamp to place on many items such as wills and newspaper |
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Samuel Adams |
one of the founders of the sons of liberty |
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Townshend Acts |
laws passed by parliament in 1767 that set taxes on imports to the colonies |
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Boston Massacre |
conflict between colonists and British soldiers in which four colonies were killed |
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committees of correspondence |
A network of communication set up in Massachusetts and Virginia to i9nform other colonies of ways that Britain threatened colonial rights |
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Boston Tea Party |
Protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor |
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King George III |
King of England during the American Revolution |
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Intolerable Acts |
A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protest against the British |
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Martial Law |
Rule by the military |
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Minutemen |
Civilian Soldiers |