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Redcoats | A slang term used to describe the British soldiers |
Patriots | Colonists who were against British rule in America |
tariff | a tax |
Minutemen | Patriots who would quickly be ready to fight the British soldiers |
Sons of Liberty | A secret group that met to share information about the problems the colonists were having with British taxes and rule |
Paul Revere | an American Patriot who is known for his famous ride to warn that the British were coming |
Samuel Adams | British soldiers went to a town in Massachusetts to arrest John Hancock and this Patriot |
General Gage | A British soldier who was involved in the first battles of the American Revolution |
Lexington | The first town that the British soldiers invaded at the start of the Revolutionary War |
Concord | Weapons were hidden near this town by Americans preparing for a war with Britain |