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17 Cards in this Set
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stamp act
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required all documents to carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid
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quartering act
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required colonists to quarter British soldiers and provide them supplies
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Townshend acts
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imported taxes on glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea
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Boston massacre
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named by the sons of liberty, African American 1st to die
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Boston tea party
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sons of liberty, they threw 342 chests of tea in Boston harbor
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intolerable acts
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laws designed to punish Massachusetts and warn other colonists
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proclamation of 1763
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king George " drew " an imaginary line across the Appalachian mountains
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Samuel Adams
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started the committees of correspondence
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Lexington and Concord
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the first battles of the revolutionary war
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1st continental congress
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1774, a direct response to intolerable acts
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sons of liberty
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a secret society created to oppose British policies
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boycott
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a refusal to buy certain goods
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repealed
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canceled
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Minutemen
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civilians ready to fight at a minutes notice
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militia
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armed civilians that defend their community
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parliament
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England's chief law making body
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John Adams
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defended the British soldiers in court
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