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  2. Committees of correspondence - Wikipedia

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    With Pennsylvania's action in May 1774, all of the colonies that eventually rebelled had established such committees. [25] The colonial committees successfully organized common resistance to the Tea Act and even recruited physicians who would write that drinking tea would make Americans "weak, effeminate, and valetudinarian for life."

  3. Penelope Barker - Wikipedia

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    Barker wrote a statement proposing a boycott of British goods, like cloth and tea. Followed by 50 other women, the Edenton Tea Party was created. [1] [7] On October 25, 1774, Barker and her supporters, Edenton Ladies Patriotic Guild, met at the house of Elizabeth King to sign the Edenton Tea Party resolution that protested the British Tea Act ...

  4. Committee of safety (American Revolution) - Wikipedia

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    A July 4, 1776, notice sent by the Second Continental Congress to a Committee of Safety organized in Lancaster in the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania. In the American Revolution, committees of correspondence, committees of inspection, also known as committees of observation and committees of safety, were different local committees of Patriots that became a shadow government; they took ...

  5. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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    You'll also get a notification titled “Your AOL account information has changed” if any info in your account settings are updated. What AOL communications look like • Viewing from web-based email - Emails from AOL will include icons that will indicate it is either Official mail or Certified mail , depending on the type of email you received.

  6. Philadelphia Tea Party - Wikipedia

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    The Philadelphia Tea Party was an incident in late December 1773, shortly after the more famous Boston Tea Party, [1] in which a British tea ship was intercepted by American colonists and forced to return its cargo to Great Britain.

  7. Intolerable Acts - Wikipedia

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    The Intolerable Acts, sometimes referred to as the Insufferable Acts or Coercive Acts, were a series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws aimed to punish Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest of the Tea Act , a tax measure enacted by Parliament in May 1773.

  8. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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    Phishing scams happen when you receive an email that looks like it came from a company you trust (like AOL), but is ultimately from a hacker trying to get your information. All legitimate AOL Mail will be marked as either Certified Mail, if its an official marketing email, or Official Mail, if it's an important account email. If you get an ...

  9. Peggy Stewart (ship) - Wikipedia

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    Painting by Francis Blackwell Mayer, 1896, depicting the burning of Peggy Stewart. Peggy Stewart was a Maryland cargo vessel burned on October 19, 1774, in Annapolis as a punishment for contravening the boycott on tea imports which had been imposed in retaliation for the British occupation of Boston following the Boston Tea Party.