tax on all newspapers, legal documents, playing cards
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Patrick Herny
lawyer who made a speech to King George III that said Britain had to right to tax the colonistSaid " give me liberty, or give me death"
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Sons of Liberty
Samuel Adams organized a group of men to protest the Stamp Act
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repeal
means to cancel
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tariff
tax placed on goods that are imported
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Townshend Acts
taxes on tea, paper, glass, wool, lead, paints
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Boston Massacre
pushed the colonists closer to war, British soldiers shot into a crowd and killed 5 colonists
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Tea Act
act said that the only company allowed to sell tea to the colonist would be the East India Company
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Boston Tea Party
group of colonists dressed as Indians through all the tea in the harbor
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Intolerable Acts
*rules that sent more British soldiers to Boston*colonist had to let soldiers stay in their home and feed them*no ships were allowed to enter or leave...
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First Continental Congress
important meeting between all the colonies, 12 met in Philadelphia, included George Washington, Patrick Henry, John Adams, Samuel Adams
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
marked the beginning of the Revolution
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Battle of Bunker Hill
first major battle fought in Revolution
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patriot
colonist who supported the cause of independence
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Paul Revere
rode through the towns of Lexington and Concord shouting " the British are coming"
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Second Continental Congress
agreed to create a armyrepresentatives from each of the 13 coloniesLed by George Washington
