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Also known as the Coercive Acts; a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.

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A raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor (December 16, 1773) in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company.

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Tea Act of 1773 (13 Geo 3 c 44) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.

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A riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons. Examples from the Web for Boston Massacre.

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A law passed by the British government in 1765 that required the payment of a tax to Britain on a great variety of papers and documents, including newspapers, that were produced in the American colonies.

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The committees of correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution.

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American Revolutionary leader and patriot; an organizer of the Boston Tea Party and signer of the Declaration of Independence.

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Died 1769, chief of the Ottawa Indians, who led a rebellion against the British (1763–66) Word Origin and History for Pontiac.

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The action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened.

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The Great Awakening was a series of religious revivals in the North American British colonies during the 17th and 18th Centuries.

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The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.

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A multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.

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The 1689 English Bill of Rights was a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1689 that declared the rights and liberties of the people.

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A meeting of the voters of a town for the transaction of public business.