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Mr HAyNER – LINE MOUNTAIN Jr/SR High Social Studies

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PEOPLEACTSTERMSBATTLESETC Categories and amounts 100

Leader of the Sons of Liberty in Boston SAM ADAMS

Named Commander of the Continental Army at Second Continental Congress GEORGE WASHINGTON

Wrote the pamphlet Common Sense THOMAS PAINE

Lead the capture of Fort Ticonderoga with the Green Mountain Boys ETHAN ALLEN

Allowed British soldiers to demand a place to sleep and a meal to eat from the colonists QUARTERING ACT

Gave British soldiers the right to go through any house looking for smuggled goods WRITS OF ASSISTANCE

Group of punishments the British place on the colonists after the Boston Tea Party INTOLERABLE ACTS

Created a tax on glass, lead, paint and tea TOWNSHEND ACTS

Force of armed civilians pledged to defend their country MILITIA

Term for large guns and cannons ARTILLERY

A colonist that supported the British in the Revolutionary War LOYALIST

Secret groups of colonists that helped spread information on the British – most in rural areas COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE

Which side fired the first shot at the Battle of Lexington to start the war NO ONE KNOWS

What was the importance of capturing Fort Ticonderoga? COLONISTS GOT CANNONS

Colonists lost this early battle but showed they could compete with the British troops FIRST BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL

Term used to describe a colonial man ready to fight the British on short notice MINUTEMAN

Term used to describe not buying a certain product as a form of protest BOYCOTT

The author of the Declaration of Independence THOMAS JEFFERSON

Lawyer who defends the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trial JOHN ADAMS

First person shot and killed in the Boston Massacre CRISPUS ATTUCKS

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