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It was Britain's way of taxing newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dice, and playing cards -
The Boston massacre was a deadly riot on king street in Boston. A conflict between American colonists and British soldiers broke out and the soldiers fired killing 5 colonists and wounding others. -
Protecting both a tax on tea and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company -
In retaliation for colonial resistance to British rule during the winter of 1773-4, The British parliament enacted four measures that became known as intolerable acts. -
Called by the committees of correspondence in response to the intolerable acts, the First continental congress convened in Philadelphia fifty-six delegates represented all the colonies except Georgia -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord fought on April 19, 1775, and kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. -
Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of the United States, fighting began on April 19, 1775, -
Common Sense is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
In the early morning hours of February 27, 1776, Loyalist forces charged across a partially dismantled Moores Creek Bridge. -
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the first stage of the American Revolutionary War -
The Battle of Sullivan's Island, the first decisive patriot victory over the British Royal Navy, -
The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. It was engrossed on parchment and on August 2, 1776, delegates began signing it. -
The Saratoga campaign in 1777 was an attempt by the British high command for North America to gain military control of the strategically important Hudson River valley during the American Revolutionary War. -
Between 1778 and 1782 the French provided supplies, arms and ammunition, uniforms, and, most importantly, troops and naval support to the beleaguered Continental Army. The French navy transported reinforcements, fought off a British fleet, and protected Washington's forces in Virginia. -
The Valley Forge encampment occurred during the third year of the war. Early successes against a smaller British army led some Revolutionary War -
Siege of Charleston, (1780) during the American Revolution, British land and sea campaign that cut off and forced the surrender of Charleston, S.C., the principal port city of the southern American colonies. -
The Battle of Kings Mountain was one of the few major battles of the Revolutionary War waged entirely between fellow countrymen -
At the Cowpens, a frontier pastureland, on January 17, 1781, Daniel Morgan led his army of tough Continentals and backwoods -
The Battle of Yorktown proved to be the decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The British surrender forecast the end of British rule. -
This treaty, signed on September 3, 1783, between the American colonies and Great Britain, ended the American Revolution.