The first military attacks of the American Revolutionary War were the battles of Lexington and Concord. They battled in Middlesex County within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy and Cambridge, near Boston. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lexington_and_Concord
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve North American colonies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_continental_congress
When officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists dressed as Indians boarded the ships and dumped the tea into the Boston Harbor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_tea_party
A series of laws passed by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America were called the Townshend acts. It was named after Charles Townshend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townshend_Acts
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