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Social Studies
Term | Definition |
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Samuel Adams | organizer of many radical protest activities |
Boston | the town responsible for many radical activities |
PATRICK HENRY | radical leader who said, "Give me liberty or give me death" |
boycott | because of British taxes, the colonists would oftoen British goods |
taxation | without representation |
parliament | the colonist wanted to be represented where |
sons of liberty | this was a very radical colonial organoization |
boston harbor | tea was dumped here in 1773 |
John Adam | he was a lawyer and conservation cousin of #one |
charlestown | largest port city in the southern colonies |
Benjamin Franklin | he was conservation leader who spent many years over seas |
french and Indian war | a war between England and france over the Ohio valley area |
stamp act | this law put a tax on every peice of paper |
intolerable Act | laws pasted to punish Bostonians for the tea party |
minutemen | volenteer colonist who trained regularly for any British attacks |
the shot heard around the world | FRIST SHOT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR FIRED OUTSIDE OF BOSTON |
lexington | town concored where colonist and British had there first small battle |
boston massacre | ended with 5 colonist died |
england | home of king George the third |