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| Charles Townshend | the King's finance minister who proposed a new set of laws to raise revenue for Britain |
| Townshend Acts | placed import taxes on glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea |
| writs of assistance | search warrants used to enforce the Townshend Acts |
| Samuel Adams | leader of Boston's Sons of Liberty who led colonial resistance against the British |
| Daughters of Liberty | a society of women who joined the boycott of British goods |
| Redcoats | British soldiers |
| Boston Massacre | a fight between British soldiers and colonists in which 5 colonists were killed |
| John Adams | defended the British soldiers who were arrested for murder in the Boston Massacre |
| tax on tea | Parliament repealed all of the Townshend Acts in 1770 except for the... |
| Tea Act (1773) | gave the British East India Company control of colonial tea trade |
| Boston Tea Party | event where men disguised as Natives dumped tea into the Boston Harbor in protest of the Tea Act |
| 342 | Number of tea chests destroyed in the Boston Tea Party |
