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Sugar Act
Reduce molasses tax, enforces sugar tax -
Sons of Liberty
Sons of Liberty are created -
Stamp Act
Taxes on all printed items -
Quartering Act
Citizens are forced to provide for British soldiers -
Sons of Liberty Raid
Sons of liberty damage house and office of stamp collector. -
Declatory Act
Repealed stamp act, but let the parliament run however they like. -
Townsend Acts
Apply taxes to imports from other countries other than Britain -
Boston Massacre
Colonists throw snowballs, British troops fire on them -
Tea Act
Created to save East India Tea company. -
Boston Tea Party
Patriots throw tea overboard. -
Intolerable Acts
Forces Massachusetts residence to pay for tea. -
Olive Branch Petition
Congress sends Olive Branch Petition to King George III -
Patrick Henry
Gives speech in house of Burgesses -
Lexington and Concord
Battle at Lexington/Concord -
Continental Congress
Second meeting. Washington leads new army -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Battle -
Thomas Paine
Publishes Common Sense -
Declaration of Independence
Drafted by Thomas Jefferson -
Baron Von Steuben
trains the continental army at valley forge -
Patriots
Win at Saratoga -
France
Signs alliance to the US -
General Clinton
Captures 3000 patriot soldiers as he takes Charlestown, South Carolina -
Treaty of Paris
