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Stamp act
An act of the parliament which imposed a tax on British colonies in America -
Boston massacre
A small British army detachment was threaded by a large group of people protesting leading to the death of 5 people, the soldiers were charged with murder -
Intolerable acts
British parliament proposed measures that soon became known as the intolerable acts -
Battles of Lexington and concord
Paul Revere rode from Charlestown to Lexington to warn that the British were coming from Boston -
The battle of Yorktown
The battle where the British surrender, the Battle that ends the war with Britain -
The treaty of Paris
A treaty signed between the United States and Great Britain is signed in Paris ending the war and separating the United States from Britain -
The constitutional convention
The event was assembled to decide how America was going to be governed
