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The stamp act
This was imposed by the British Parliament so they can take the money from the colonists so they can pay their debts. This only lasted a year and sparked the idea of the revolution. -
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the quartering act
it banned British soldiers from coming into and staying in private homes. -
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the townshend acts
Measures that the British Parliament passed. these acts taxed imported goods to the American colonies. -
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British Troops Occupy Boston
British troops came to occupy Boston and because of that things got worse. -
The boston massacre
This event in history is remembered because Five innocent colonist were killed by the British soldiers just because they were thorwing snowballs, stones, and sticks as a protesting them. -
the boston tea party
This event was when the angry and frustrated American colonists were done with Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” so they dumped 342 chests of tea from British East India into the water of Boston harbor. -
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The Coercive Acts
They were series of laws that restricted trade and increased British control over Boston, the rest of Massachusetts, and more people. -
The first Continental Congress
This was a meeting to talk about America's future under growing British aggression and only twelve out of the thirteen came to the meeting. -
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
This was a battle to protect lexington from the britsih and it's the event when the famous shot heard round the world happen. -
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Siege of Boston
These are major event that American militiamen were effectively contained the British troops. -
battle of fort ticonderoga
this battle was first offensive victory for American forces in the war -
Continental army
is a group made to secure American colonists' independence from Great Britain -
Battle of Bunker Hill
this was a battle on a place throughout a hilly landscape of fenced pastures that were situated across the Charles River from Boston. -
Declaration of Independence
This day marks of the creation of the Declaration of Independence papers and it became a holiday named independence day. -
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Battle of Valley Forge
This battle was fought at the eastern pennsylvania along the banks of the schuykill river some 20 miles northwest of philadelphia. -
U.S. Constitution Replaces Articles of Confederation
This is when they needed to fixs thing that were not stable. -
Guilford Courthouse
this battle raged for around two hours before Greene ordered his troops to retreat from the fight, enabling the British a tactical victory but giving Greene's army to remain mostly intact. -
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ninety-six Longest Siege of the War
Continental Army Major General Nathanael Greene had led 1,000 troops in a siege against 550 Loyalists in the fortified village of Ninety Six and South Carolina. -
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battle of yorktown
was an joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major amout of British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced them to surrender. -
the Treaty of Paris
this treaty was the ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies' battles.