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Who is Samuel Adams?
Started the Committees of Correspondence
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What is the Stamp Act
Taxed all goods made from paper
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What are tax laws passed by the British
Started to help pay for the French and Indian War
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What is represenation
A voice in one's government
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What is Lexington and Concord
These marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War
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Who is Patrick Henry?
"give me liberty or give me death!"
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What is the Quartering Act
Colonists had to house and feed British soldiers
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What is the Proclamation of 1763
No colonists could live west of the Appalachian Mtns.
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What is treason
Working against one's own government
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What is the Committees of Correspondence
Helped spread information quickly between the colonies
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Who is Paul Revere?
Rider of the "midnight ride"
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What is the Townshend Acts?
Taxed imports like glass, tea, paint.
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The Boston Massacre
This fight ended with 5 colonists being killed at night on the street
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repeal
Th cancel or undo a law
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protest
To work against a certain policy.
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Who is George Washington
British general in the French and Indian War
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What is the Sugar Act
Taxed an item that made things sweet
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What is the cause of the French and Indian War
France and Britain both wanting to claim the Ohio Valley
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budget
A plan for spending money
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proclamation
A public announcement
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Who is Crispus Attucks
First colonists killed in the Boston Massacre
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The Intolerable Acts
A group of acts passed as punishment for the Boston Tea Party
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What is the Treaty of Paris
Gave Britain all lands in Ohio Vally, Canada, and Spanish Florida.
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boycott
To refuse to buy or use goods or services
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monopoly
Complete control of a product by one group
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