Lexington and Concord - The 1st battle where shots of the American Revolution were fired, First Continental Congess - Meeting of representatives from 12 colonies in 1774 to discuss British laws., Continental congress - Meeting held to discuss colonial responses to the Intolerable Acts, Minute men - Colonists who could be ready to fight the British in a minute, Townshends acts - Taxes passed by Parliament in 1767 on paint, glass and tea., Sons of liberty - Group that secretly organized protests against British laws in Boston, Boycott - Term meaning to refuse to buy certain goods as a protest., Intolerable Acts - British law that punished Massachusetts after the Tea party, Treaty of Paris - Document that officially ended the French and Indian War in 1763, Parliament - British lawmaking body that created taxes for the colonies, King George III - The monarch ruled Great Britain during the colonial unrest, Representation - Colonists argued “No taxation without __”, Edenton tea party - Secret event in North Carolina where women boycotted tea and British cloth, Boston - City where a Massacre took place in 1770., General Gage - British officer who controlled Massachusetts  Colony in 1775, Boston tea party - Event where colonists dumped tea into the Harbor to protest a tax., Samuel Adams - Leader of the Sons of Liberty who opposed British taxes, Tea Act - Law that gave the East India Company control of tea sales in the colonies., Paul Revere - Secret alarm rider who warned of British troop movement toward Concord, Bribed - Colonist _______tax collectors to look the other way for smuggling.,

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