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American Revolution Cards #2
13 Colonies- BOSTON
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7th Grade
01/06/2010

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Patriots
Definition
a colonist who supported the colonial rebels
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The townshend Acts
Definition
a series of laws passed by parliament that suspend New York assembly and established taxes on goods, etc.
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Sam Adams
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boston leader in the era of the American

 Revolution

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Committees of Correspondence

 

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a group of people that arange letter and offairs

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the circular letter
Definition
the letter sprending news of a rebellion
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The boston Massacre
Definition
the event used against the laws/ rules of the king
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Paul Revere
Definition
a patriotwho helped warn colonists the the RED COATS are coming
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The boston tea party
Definition
the dumping of 342 tea chest
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The intolerable Acts
Definition
laws passed by parliament to punish massachuttes for the boston tea party 
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The First Continental Congress
Definition
meeting held by the colonies in Philadelphiain 1774 to decide what to do about the problems in Britian
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Lexington and Concord
Definition
sites of the first battes of the Revolutionary War
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Minute men
Definition
people that can get ready for battle at a minutes moment
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The olive branch potition
Definition
when the colonists faked they were sorry and used the olive branch as a "peace" sign
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The second continental congress
Definition
a governing body whose delagrates agree in may 1775 to form a continental army to approve the decleration of independence
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the decleration of independence
Definition
written in 1776 in which the colonies declared independence from britian
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the treaty of paris 1783
Definition
treaty that ended the revolutionary war, comforming independence in the United States
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Propaganda

Definition
information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
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