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Samuel Adams
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american revolutionary who led the agitation that led to the Boston tea party
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Committees of Correspondence
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committees created by the Massachusetts house of rep in the 1960s to help towns and colonies share info about resisting british laws
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Stamp Act of 1765
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a law passed by parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonist to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items such as newspaper,licences, and illegal documents
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Boston Massacre
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an incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonist, killing 5 people
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Tea Act
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a law passed by parliament allowing the British east India company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies, undermining colonial tea merchants led to the boston tea party
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Boston Tea Party
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a protest against the tea act in which a group of colonist boarded British tea ships and dumped more than 340 chests into the Boston Harbor
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