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Speculate to buy as an

Boycott a widespread refusal

investment

to buy goods

The Proclamation of 1763, forbade

The most effective colonist protest took
colonists from settling beyond the
the form of a boycott, a widespread
Appalachian Mountains. This
refusal to buy British goods.
proclamation angered settlers who hoped
to speculate in western lands.

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Duties taxes placed on
imported goods
Britains finance minister, Charles
Townsend, proposed a new series of
duties to raise revenue in America.

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Militia

a force of armed civilians

pledged to defend a community
Captain John Parker and 70 of his men
stood on the grassy common at the
center of Lexington, a village near
Boston. The men under Parkers
command belonged to the local militia.

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Siege when enemy forces

Artillery cannons and large

surround a town or city in order to

force it to surrender

guns

Ethan Allen led his band of backwoods

fighters known as the Green Mountain
Boston was now under siege encircled
by military forces determined to force the Boys. They captured the for and its large
supply of artillery.
British to surrender.

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