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Boston Tea Party
1773 American protest against British taxation
Boston Massacre
Incident on March 5, 1770
Battle of Bunker Hill
1775 early battle of the American Revoluntionary War

John Singleton Copley
American painter (1738-1815)
Siege of Boston
1775 the Continental Army's siege of British-held Boston during the beginning of the American Revolutionary War
Liberty Tree
Historical elm tree
Thomas Cushing
First Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor, briefly acting governor (1725-1788)

William Billings
American choral composer (1746-1800)
Powder Alarm
major popular reaction to the removal of gunpowder from a magazine by British soldiers under orders from General Thomas Gage, royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, on September 1, 1774
Fortification of Dorchester Heights
military action of the American Revolutionary War
Battle of Chelsea Creek
1775 battle of the American Revolutionary War
The Boston News-Letter
first newspaper in British North America
Boston smallpox epidemic of 1721
epidemic
Boston Port Act
UK parliament act of 1774
James Swan
American financier
Jonathan Mayhew
American minister (1720-1766)
Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton
American writer, poet (1759-1846)
1755 Cape Ann Earthquake
Magnitude 6 earthquake (November 18, 1755) off the coast of the British Province of Massachusetts Bay (now Massachusetts)
Boston Gazette
Newspaper
Henry Pelham
American born British-Irish painter and engraver (1749-1806)
Joseph Badger
American artist (1707-1765)
James Franklin
American colonial author, printer, newspaper publisher, and almanac publisher
John Daly Burk
Irish historian and writer

Thomas Prince
Colonial American clergyman and historian