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The Boston Massacre
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The Tea Act
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The Boston Tea Party
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The Quartering Act of 1774
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The First Continental Congress Meets
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The Ride of Paul Revere
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Battles of Lexington and Concord
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Period: to
Revolutionary War
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The Green Mountain Boys seize Fort Ticonderoga
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George Washington named Commander in Chief
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Thomas Paine publishes "Common Sense"
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Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence
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Washington crosses the Delaware river and captures Trenton, NJ
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Washington's Army settles at Valley Forge
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The United States and French sign "The French Alliance
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British replace Gen. William Howe with Gen. Henry Clinton
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British occupy Savannah, GA
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Americans fail to recapture Savannah, GA
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British capture Charleston, SC
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General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, VA
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The United States and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Paris
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U.S. Constitution signed