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Stamp Act
First internal tax paying for British protection -
Townshed Act
Import duties on tea, lead, glass and paint colors. -
Boston Massacre
British open fire killed five americans.
Crowd of colonists threaten British soldiers -
Boston Tea Party
Bristish sold tea even more cheaply than smuggled tea -
Intolerable Act
British officials in trouble sent to Great Britian for trial -
Second Continental Congress
Decided to seperate from Great Britian
Ended in 1781 -
Battle of Bunker Hill
located near Boston
Americans ran out of ammunition -
Olive Branch Petiton
was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5 and submitted to King George on July 8, 1775 -
Common Sense is published
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Declaration of Independence
Written by Thomas Jefferson
It is the "British Certificate Of The Unite States" -
Trenton
Surprise attack, day after Christmas
1000 German soliders fought -
Battle of Saratoga
The turning point of the war
Biggest American victory at the time -
Yorktown
British General Cornwallis faced American forces approximately twice his size
French blockade -
Treaty of Paris
Ends the Revolutionary War
