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Set a tax on official documents for colonists. Britain's way of proving they were the authority over the colonies.
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England placed taxes on paint, oil, lead and paper as well as tea.
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Roughly 50 citizens attacked a group of British soldiers resulting in the death of several colonists.
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Didn't add new taxes to the colonies, attempted to help the East India Company but colonists felt like it was taking business away from locals.
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Colonists dressed as Native Americans and boarded three ships entering Boston Harbor and dumped out chests of tea.
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Delegates from each colony arrived in Philidelphia to come up with a plan for leaving England. Resulted in the Declaration of Resolves
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Paul Rever and William Dawes visit houses warning of British troops invading "THE BRITISH ARE COMING"
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George Washington is named the Commander in Chief of the Contintenal Army by the Continental Congress
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Published by Thomas Paine, gave the colonists the many reasons they should want independence from Britain
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Continental Congress signs the Declaration of Independence, declaring us free of England
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Washington and troops cross the Potomac River and seizes Trenton. Turning point of the war
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"The Stile of this confederacy shall be "The United States of America"."
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Britain and the colonists sign the Articles of Peace and the British began to evacuate the US
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representatives of the colonies spent the Summer in France as the Treaty of Paris was created. It officially ended the Revolutionary War
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The U.S. Constitution was a framework for the new government, signed by delegates from each state
