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formal request
What is Petition
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assured king of colonists desire for peace
What is Olive Branch Petition
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organization used in earlier protest of the American Revolution
What is Committee of Correspondence
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colonists formed to fight British Army
What is Continental Army
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British leaders tried to avoid some of the problems created by the Stamp Act
What is Townsend Acts
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Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians dumped tea from ship into Boston Harbor to protest tax
What is Boston Tea Party
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Wrote Common Sense to promote separation from Britain
What is Thomas Paine:
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1766, stated that Parliament had the right to tax and make decisions for the British colonies
What is Declaratory Act
200
groups of citizen soldiers
What is Militias
200
Famous horse ride to warn of the British attacking
What is Paul Revere
300
British won but suffered heavy losses
What is Battle of Bunker Hill
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a pledge not to buy or use good imported from England
What is Nonimportation
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placed a tax on almost all printed material in the colonies
What is Stamp Act
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loyal to American Colonies
What is Patriots
300
cancel
What is Repeal
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British soldiers fired into crowd protesting taxes, killed 7 people
What is Boston Massacre
400
refuse to buy
What is Boycott
400
1773, gave the right to Britain to ship tea to colonies and tax
What is Tea Act
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First person killed at Boston Massacre, Was African American
What is Crispus Attucks
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information designed to influence opinion
What is Propaganda
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1775, colonial representatives assembled to declare independence from Britain
What is Second Continental Congress
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political body established to represent American interests
What is Continental Congress
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colonists that stayed loyal to Britain
What is Loyalists
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very harsh laws intended to punish people of Massachusetts
What is Coercive Acts
500
statement declaring independence from Britain
What is Declaration of Independence