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Townshend Acts
-These laws placed taxes on even more imports and on tea
-Colonists in Boston protested the new taxes with boycotts and riots -
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French and Indian War
-This war was 9 years.
-The war was between the British and the French and the British and the Indians.
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Stamp Act
-This act required colonists to buy and place stamps on items such as wills and playing cards.
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Boston Massacre
-a group of Boston protesters gathered to harass some British soldiers.
-The soldiers fired into into the group.
-Five Bostonians were killed -
Boston Tea Party
-The government gave a British company the right to all the trade in tea.
-One night, several colonists snuck aboard a British ship carrying tea in the Boston Harbor.
-The colonists dumped all of the ship's tea into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
-To punish Massachusetts, Parliament passed a set of laws called the Intolerable Acts.
-Acting under these acts, Britain closed Boston Harbor -
Committee of Correspondence
-The Committee of Correspondence was to communicate with each other about various threats to American liberties
-What colonists did as a result of the Boston Massacre -
Thomas Jefferson
-Continental Congress moved closer to declaring the colonists independent.
-The Congress asked Thomas Jefferson of Virginia to write a document stating the colonies reasons for declaring freedom -
Declaration of Independence
-document stating the colonies' reasons for declaring freedom
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Battle of Trenton
- Washington and his army crossed the Delaware river and surprised attacked the British.
- Almost 1000 British soldiers were captured.
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Battle of Saratoga
-British troops and Native Americans marched south from Canada
-The Colonial Army met them at Saratoga, New York and won the battle. -
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Valley Forge
-Washington and his soldiers spent a horrible winter at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania in the woods outside Philadelphia
-The American soldiers camped there suffered from hunger and frost bite.
-More than 2,000 soldiers died. -
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The Battle of Yorktown
-American and French forces decided to attack Cornwallis at Yorktown.
-On October 19. 1781 the British surrendered. The Americans had won the war. -
Treaty of Paris
-Under the agreement, Britain recognized the United States as an independent nation.
-The British also gave America all the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River.