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Militia

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A army

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Rebel

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Patriot

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Repeal

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When someone takes something away trike a law

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Liberty

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Freedom

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Boycott

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Refusing to buy something

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Loyalist

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Someone who was loyal to the British

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Neutralists

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Someone who is neutral in the war

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Patriot

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Someone who wants independence and is fighting the British

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Traitor

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Someone who betrays their country

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First continental congress

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The first meeting of congress that the us had to stop the intolerable acts and to say they did not want to go to war with Britain

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American revolution

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The war between the British and the colonies for independence

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Battle of bunker hill

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The battle that happened on breeds hill that the American Army fought well

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Boston tea party

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The sons of liberty led by Samuel Adams threw tea off of a British ship to protest the acts

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Comity of correspondence

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The group that met to discuss the new British policies

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Townshend acts

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The acts that provoked the Boston massacre that were made by lord Townshend the tax included paint

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Intolerable acts

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Because of the Boston tea party the British made it so no one could get in to the harbor or out

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The sons of liberty

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A group formed in 1765 by Samuel Adams that encouraged colonists to disobey British laws

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Town meeting

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When a town meets to discuss problems

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Treason

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When someone does something against a group

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Stamp act

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What the British did when they taxed all things on paper

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Minutemen

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A nickname for the American army

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Assembly

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When a group of people get together to do something

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Delegate

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A person that goes over to another place to represent where they are coming from

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Petition

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A thing that a lot of people sign normally to get people to do somthing

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