The Road to Revolution Lessons 3.3-3.5

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a group of armed civilians, trained to be ready to fight "at a minute's warning"

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Minutement

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a series of laws - also known as the Coercive Acts - meant to punish Massachusetts and clamp down on resistance in the other colonies

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Intolerable Acts

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meeting of delegates from most of the colonies, called together in reaction to the Intolerable Acts

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First Continental Congress

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Boston silversmith who rode into the countryside to spread news of British troop movement

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Paul Revere

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first battles of the Revolutionary War

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Battles of Lexington and Concord

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Americans who supported the British

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Loyalists

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Americans that sided with the rebels

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Patriots

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a force of Armed civilians pledged to defend their community

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Militia

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a leader of the Patriot group of fighters known as the Green Mountain Boys

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Ethan Allen

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America's government during the Revolutionary War

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Second Continental Congress