American Revolution

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    Lead-in To War

  • British Troops Occupy Boston

  • Passage of the Stamp Act

  • Committees of Correspondence Established

  • Britain Tries to Intimidate Massachusetts

  • Britain Forms an Alliance with Patriot Slaves

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    Independence Declared

  • War Breaks Out

  • Battle of Bunker Hill: Americans Hold Their Own

  • America Declares Its Independence

  • Moores Creek: Loyalists Defeated

  • South Carolinians Repel British Attempt to Take Charleston

  • George Washington Crosses the Delaware River

  • Campaign of 1777 & Battle of Saratoga: Britsh Setback

  • Winter of Change for the Continental Army

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    War in the North

  • France Enters the War Against Britain

  • George Rogers Clark Attacks the British in Ohio Country

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    Southern Campaigns

  • Guilford Courthouse: Costly British Victory

  • Charleston Falls to the British

  • Kings Mountain Victory Revives Patriot Hopes

  • Ninety-Six: Longest Siege of the War

  • Yorktown: Large British Army Surrenders

  • Battle of Cowpens: American Tide Continues

  • Loyalists Leave America

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    Aftermath

  • Treaty of Paris Officially Ends the War

  • American Victory Pushes Indians Farther West

  • U.S. Constitution Replaces Articles of Confederation