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George Washington
George Washington that was a commander of the American Revolutionary War, he also served two terms as America's first president. When he was younger he worked as a surveyor then he fought along side in the French and Indian War. -
French and Indian War
The war between the French and the British, French with roughly 60,000 settlers while the British had around 2 million. French and Indian war was a 7 year fight between French and Great Britain, it was a long fight between them but in the end Britain won. But they were in debt so they began to tax everyone to pay their debt -
Sugar Act
The Sugar act was passed by the Parliament Britain, which said that they are going to be taxed for 2 lbs of sugar for no reason. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight between the patriots and the British soldiers. There were sticks, snowballs, and stones thrown all over the place at the British. Someone threaten them to shoot and we don't really know what happened but someone shot and we don't really know who. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty, the boarded a ship that had a bunch of tea in it and dumped all the tea into the ocean cause they didn't like the new law that you had to pay taxes for tea. -
First Continental Congress
First Continental Congress, was a meeting at the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution War. It had delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies meeting up. -
Second Continental Congress
convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies which talked about the First Continental Congress which was successful. -
Lexington and Concord
The Lexington and Concord was the very first battle of the Revolutionary war, the reason this war happened was because the British heard of supplies in powder and weapons were being kept by patriots in town. -
Deceleration of Independence
The Deceleration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson who wrote about how the Colonies wanted to break away from Britain and all their rules and laws and become independent and have their own laws and country
