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French and Indian war
French and Indians sided and fought the British. -
Sugar act
taxes on sugar -
Boston Massacre
know one knows how it started but British soldiers shot and killed 11 colonists. -
Boston Tea Party
colonists rioted and threw all of the tea into the harbor -
First Continental Congress
12 of the 13 colonies got together -
Lexington and Concord
first military engagements of the war -
Second Continental Congress
all thirteen colonies met -
Bunker hill
turning point during the siege of Boston. -
Common Sense
A book written by Thomas Paine -
Declaration of Independence
a breakup letter from america to Britain -
Washington crosses the Delaware
Washington and his men crossed the Delaware river to ambush the Brits on the other side -
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Valley Forge
military camp for the Americans -
Siege of Yorktown
also known as the surrender of Yorktown -
Treaty of Paris
Ended the revolutionary war
