On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere was sent to _____________ to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were coming to arrest them.
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On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of patriots boarded three ships from the East India Company of London, the ____________, the Eleanor and the Beaver, and dumped their cargo of tea into Boston Harbor.
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An elm tree was used to hang effigies of men in favor of the Stamp Act. This tree has become known as the _____________ Tree.
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_____________ Adams wrote the Circular Letter protesting the taxation of the colonists without fair representation.
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King George III decided to tax the American colonies in order to recover the British costs for the French and ________________ War.
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Deborah Sampson enlisted in the Fourth ___________________ of the Continental Army, having disguised herself as a man.
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On April 19, 1775, the first battle of the American Revolution was fought in Lexington and __________________. Ralph Waldo Emerson referred to the beginning of this battle as “the shot heard round the world.”
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Crispus ____________ was the first man killed in the Revolution when he was shot in the Boston Massacre.
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Colonel William Prescott is said to have ordered his men, “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes”, at the Battle of ____________ Hill.
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John Adams and his assistant, Josiah _____________, were the defense attorneys in the Boston Massacre case.