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22 Cards in this Set
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First Continental Congress
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A gathering of colonial leaders that wanted to state the colonists concerns for the British.
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Committees of Correspondence
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A group of colonists from the various colonies that agreed to share information through letters about the British actions and how to fight them.
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Patriot
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A colonist that chose to fight for independence from Great Britain.
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Boston Massacre
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a fight between the colonists and some British soldiers that left 5 colonists dead; was used as propaganda
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Intolerable Act
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punished the colonies after the Boston Tea Party and required them to pay for the tea
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Loyalists
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colonists that chose to side with the British
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Stamp Act
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A tax on all legal papers: created by the British to raise revenue to pay the debt of the French and Indian War and for the soldiers in the colonies
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minutemen
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men who were wiling to fight in a moment's notice against the British
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Tea Act
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law that allowed tea from the British East India tea company to be sold directly to the colonies. This would be cheaper and stop smuggling.
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a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine expressing the opinion that colonists should make the laws not kings or queens.
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Continental Army
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created from the Massachusettes militia but soon joined by other colonies
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revenue
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taxes collected by governments
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wits
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a written order that allows a search of private property
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repeal
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to take back a law such as: the king did this with the Stamp Act after the protests.
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Townshend Acts
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laws stating that the colonists would pay taxes on paint, lead, paper and tea brought into the colonies
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Sons of Liberty
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a secret society of colonists that used propaganda and violence to protest British actions
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propaganda
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telling events from only one point of view to change opinions
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boycott
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an organized protest method where the colonists refused to buy British products
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Quartering Act
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law that required the colonists to provide housing and supplies for soldiers
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mercantilism
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an economic system that required all colonial goods to be traded through England in English ships
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Boston Tea Party
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a protest by colonists in Boston to the Tea Act where the colonists destroyed the property by dumping a ship load of tea into the harbor
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