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Period: to
causes
-1770: Boston Massacre
-1773: Coercive Acts
-1774: First Continental Congress -
1775
Battle of Lexington and Concord -
Declaration of Independence
Franklin
John Adams
Jefferson -
Period: to
Turning point
-1777/78: First battle of Saratoga
Second battle of Saratoga -
Period: to
1779-81
-Defection of General Benedict Arnold
-1779: British occupied Georgia
-1780: Charleston
-1781: victory against British force at Cowpens, South Carolina -
Battle of Yorktown
-1781: Benjamin Lincoln accepted the British surrender -
Independence of the United States
Great Britain recognized the independence of the united states in the Treaty of Paris