Events Leading up to the Revolutionary War

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The leader of the Sons of Liberty and organized the Boston Tea Party

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Samuel Adams

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A colonist who remained loyal to Britain

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loyalist

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A colonists who wanted independence from Britain

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Patriot

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Cancel or take back

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repeal

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Refuse to buy

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boycott

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a law forbidding British colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains

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Proclamation of 1763

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Taxed legal documents, newspapers, playing cards and dice

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stamp act

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taxed goods such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea

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Townshend Acts

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law that let the British East India Company bypass tea merchants and sell directly to colonists

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Tea Act

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Laws that King George III passed to punish Boston for the Tea Party

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Intolerable Acts