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The colonists are shots by British troops
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The sons of Liberty board British ships and dump crates of tea into the Boston Harbor.
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The colonies get together to unite and oppose British taxes.
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Warn the colonists that the "British are coming".
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The actual fighting starts with the first "shot heard around the world
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Continental Congress agrees to Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.
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"Stars and Stripes" Flag sewn by Betsy Ross.
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The United States as an independent country with the Treaty of Alliance
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Official government of the United States.
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British General Cornwallis surrender at Yorktown was the unofficial end to the war.
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