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15 Cards in this Set
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minutemen |
colonial militia groups that could be ready to fight at a minute's notice |
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Continental Army |
army formed in 1775 by the Second Continental Congress and led by General George Washington |
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American Revolution |
the war between the 13 Colonies and Great Britain from 1775 to 1783 in which the 13 Colonies won their independence and became the United States |
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militia |
volunteer armies |
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Patriots |
colonists who opposed British rule |
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Loyalists |
colonists who remained loyal to the British during the American Revolution |
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Parliament |
Britain's law-making assembly |
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repeal |
to cancel |
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Sons of Liberty |
groups of Patriots who worked to oppose British rule before the American Revolution |
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tariff |
tax on imported goods |
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boycott |
organized refusal to buy goods |
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Battle of Bunker Hill |
costly victory for British troops over the Patriots in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in the American Revolution on June 17, 1775 |
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Boston Tea Party |
protests against British taxes in which the Sons of Liberty boarded British ships and dumped tea into Boston Harbor in 1773 |
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Committee of Correspondence |
groups of colonists formed in the 1770s to spread news quickly about protests against the British |
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Boston Massacre |
event in 1770 in Boston in which British soldiers killed 5 colonists who were part of an angry group that had surrounded them |
