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Social Studies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |