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Boston Massacre
British sentries in front of the Boston Customs House outside guarding the building had shot into a crowd of civilians/people and it had killed three men and wounded eight two of them were hurt worse than the others. -
The Boston Tea Party
It was in protest that a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests or crates of tea into the Boston Harbor to go against the tax on tea and that's where taxation without representation came from, the other thing was the monopoly of the East India Company. -
Passage of the Intolerable Acts
This was mostly to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party and it was four laws that got passed just to punish them. -
Creation of Continental Congress
The Continental Congress put together the navy and army they had built a post office and issued money to people.
They were prompted by the Intolerable Acts they had to reassert dominance over the people after the Boston Tea Party. -
Paul Revere's Ride
Paul Revere's ride is where Paul got on his horse and rode to town to warn the people that the British soldiers were coming. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Massachusetts colonists had defied British authorities, they had outnumbered and outfought the Redcoats and then they had embarked lengthy war to earn their independence. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
New England soldiers faced the British army for the first time in a pitched battle. It was commonly known as the Battle of Bunker Hill, gruesome fighting took place in a hilly field close bu some fenced pastures that were placed across the Charles River from Boston -
The creation of the Declaration of Independence
The "Committee of Five" John Adams, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson drafted it, and Adams and Franklin made changes to it. -
Battle of Saratoga
Burgoyne and his army or troops were mad they got defeated and started marching towards the town of Saratoga however Gates's army has surrounded them and had forced them to surrender and that had given us an American victory. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States of America. America was recognized and that had got the borders established for the "New Nation".