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1. | A search warrant that allowed British officers to search colonists' homes for smuggled goods |
2. | A colonist loyal to the new country |
3. | A group of armed civilians pledged to defend their community |
4. | A lawer, cousin to Samuel Adams, who defended the British soldiers who shot the colonists in the Boston Massacre |
5. | A member of Virginia's House of Burgesses who called for resistance to the Stamp tax |
6. | A meeting of delegates from all colonies but Georgia to uphold colonial rights, |
8. | A member of the militia trained to respond at 'a minute's notice.' |
10. | The document in which the colonies declared independence from Britain |
11. | income a government collects to cover expenses |
13. | A law passed by Parliament that required strict punishment for smugglers; also required taxes paid on sugar, molasses, etc |
16. | The son of a Native American mother and African father; died in the Boston Massacre |
19. | A secret society of colonists to oppose British policies |
20. | The dumping of 342 cases of tea in the Boston harbor by colonists dressed as Native Americans to protest the Tea Tax |
22. | A series of laws that suspended New York's assemblies& established taxes British goods |
25. | A cannon or large gun |