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The british soldiers shot the Patriots which lead to 5 deaths.

He refused to accept the Olive Branch Petition. He believed the Americans to be in rebellion, and he also thought he could quickly end it with military force by urging the parliament to issue a naval blockade of the American colonies.

Temporary rule by military rather than civilian authority.

A documentary sent by the second continental congress to King George III proposing a reconciliation between the colonies and Britain.

The document written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776 in which the delegates of the continental congress declared the colonies independence from Britain.

law in which Parliament established the first direct taxation of goods and services with the British colonies in North America.

A series of laws enacted by parliament in 1767 establishing indirect taxes on goods imported from Britain by the British colonies in North America.

A pamphlet by Thomas Paine polished in 1776 that called for separation of the colonies from Britain.

colonists who supported American independence from Britain.

colonists who supported the British government during the American Revolution.

The Continental congress that convened in May 1775, approved the Declaration of Independence, and served as the only agency of national government during the Revolutionary War.

September 1774 made five major decisions which rejected colonial union plan, declaration of colonial rights, began mlitary preparation, continental association to enforce non importation, non exportation.

An organizer of boston’s Sons of liberty he conceived of the Boston committee of correspondence and coordinated Boston’s resistance to the tea act. The act climaxed in the famous tea party. He represented Massachusetts in the continental congress from 1774-1781

A series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party

The dumping of 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor colonists in 1773 to protest the tea act.

one of the groups set up by American colonists to exchange information about British threats to their liberties.