Creating a New Nation/American Revolution

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Act that gave East India Company right to sell tea in the colonies

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Tea Act

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This Act was passed by Parliament in 1767 to place duties on products imported to the colonies.

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Townsend Acts

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Leader of the Sons of Liberty

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Samuel Adams

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This person died during the Boston Massacre

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Crispus Attucks

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Organizations formed in to exchange information within the colonies were known as

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committees of correspondence

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Search warrants used by British to enter homes or businesses to search for illegal goods

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writs of assistance

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Lawyer who helped to draft a petition saying that Parliament did not have the right to tax the colonies

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John Adams

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British army General whose surrender signaled Great Britain's defeat in the war?

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Lord Cornwallis

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People who remained loyal to the King

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Loyalists

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Designed to maintain peace between the colonists and the Native Americans

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Proclamation of 1763