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Official government stamp required first internal tax paying for British protection.
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Import duties on tea, lead, glass, and paint colors. Money used to pay royal governors.
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Crowd of colonists threaten British soldiers
British open fire killing five Americans. -
British sold tea even more cheaply than smuggled tea, colonist boarded tea ships then dumped the tea overboard.
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Closed the port of Boston
American town meetings banned -
Decided to officially separate from Great Britain
Committee selected to draft the reasons for separation. -
Located near Boston.
Red coats victorious in third charge.
Americans ran out of ammunition.
Moral victory for American Army.
Washington took command of the army two weeks after this battle. -
Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies, that the Congress represented, and Great Britain. The petition affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain and entreated the king to prevent further conflict.
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A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776.
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Written by Thomas Jefferson.
It is the "Birth Certificate of the United States.
Document listed rights and grievances against King George III
John Hancock was the first to sign in large print. -
Surprise attack the day after Christmas, George Washington crossed the Delaware. German leader Colonel Rall mortally wounded.
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The turning point of the war, the biggest American victory at the time. February 1778 France and America formed an alliance. Spain declared war in 1779.
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French blockade aided this final battle, escape from the British was impossible. Pinned in by American and French naval fleets. General Benjamin Lincoln accepted the surrender sword.
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Ends the Revolutionary War. Set many geograpjic boarders including United States and Canada. Florida was returned to Spain. British merchants must be paid for lost items. Loyalists must be paid for lost property.
