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| Fought for control of eastern North America |
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| person or group that works with another to work toward a goal |
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| group of repreentatives who meet to discuss a subject |
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| each colony would have its own government but also have an overall government to solve problems that affected them all |
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| leader of Britian's Parliament |
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| agreement between France and Britian |
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| Ottawa chief who led American Indians in a war against the British |
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| a fight against a government |
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| official public statement |
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| won control of the Ohio River Valley after the French and Indian War |
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| stopped colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains |
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| British government tried to raise money topay for this |
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| money people pay to the government in return for services |
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| tax put on almost anything that was printed |
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| tax on sugar, coffee, and cloth |
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| freedom from being controlled by another government |
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| worked with the Sons of Liberty to organize protests in Boston |
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| event where people complain about an issue |
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| group of people refuses to buy, sell, or use cetain goods |
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| tax on tea, glass, lead, paint and paper |
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| wove their own cloth and used it to make clothes |
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| passed to remove the Stamp Act |
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| African American sailor remembered as a hero |
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| painted a picture showing the Boston Massacre |
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| lawyer who defended the soldiers from Boston |
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| shared information with other colonists |
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| Committees of Correspondence |
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| tea thrown into the Boston Harbor |
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| what the colonists called the Coercive Acts |
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| laws passed to punish the colonists in Massachusetts |
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| someone chosen to speak and act for others |
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| delegates from every colony except Georgia meet |
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| First Continental Congress |
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| Reason the First Continental Congress met |
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| wrote letter to King George III asking to repeal the Intolerable Acts |
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| colonists who opposed the British rule |
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| wrote plays criticizing the British rule |
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| group of ordinary people who train for battle |
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| new British givernor of Massachusetts |
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| Paul Revere and William Dawes |
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| militia with special training |
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| why British soldiers were sent to Concord |
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| to destroy the cannons of the militia |
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| miniutemen clash with British and are forced to flee |
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| colonists and British shoot at each other and the British turn back after several soldiers are killed |
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| wrote "the shot heard around the world" |
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| patriot's lost but proved they were ready for battle here at Breed's Hill |
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| Second Continental Congress |
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| created the Continental Army |
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| organized the continental army |
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| written request from a number of people |
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| written request asking King George III to end the conflict |
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| fort was captured and its cannons were taken to Boston |
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