American revolution

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    french and indian war

    it is important because this war caused great financial impact and the british had to raise taxes

  • stamp act

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    townshend act

  • Boston Massacre

  • Boston Tea Party

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    Intolerable Acts

  • First Continental Congress convenes

  • Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech

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    Paul Revere’s Ride and the Battles of Lexington and Concord

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

  • Thomas Paine’s Common Sense published

  • Declaration of Independence adopted

  • Nathan Hale executed

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    December 25–26, 1776: Washington crosses the Delaware

  • Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga

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    Washington winters at Valley Forge

  • France and the United States form an alliance

  • John Paul Jones: “I have not yet begun to fight!”

  • September 1780: Benedict Arnold turns traitor

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    Siege of Yorktown

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    September–October 1781: Siege of Yorktown

  • Articles of Confederation ratified