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Feature Facts. 9. BOSTON TEA PARTY . INTOLERABLE ACTS. Punishment the colonies received after the Boston Tea Party. Colonists dump 342 chests of tea in protest of the Tea Act. Mercy Otis Warren. First Continental Congress. Meeting of colonial delegates in September 1774.
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BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS Punishment the colonies received after the Boston Tea Party. Colonists dump 342 chests of tea in protest of the Tea Act.
Mercy Otis Warren First Continental Congress Meeting of colonial delegates in September 1774 Female patriot who wrote plays to make the British look foolish
OLIVE BRANCH PETITION BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL The 2nd Continental Congress sends this to King George III for one last chance at peace. The first major battle of the war for control of the city of Boston
THOMAS JEFFERSON COMMON SENSE A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine which convinced many Loyalists to become Patriots The primary author of the Declaration of Independence
FRANCE Virginia House of Burgesses First representative assembly in North America Country who came to our aid after Saratoga .