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Treaty of Paris
- Formally ended the revolutionary war
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Stamp Act
- Tax on legal documents
- required stamps bought for all legal documents and other items such as playing cards , newspaper , etc.
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Townshend Act
- To help from governments
- Examples ; tea , paper , glass and paints
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Boston Massacre
- A drunk mob harasses british soldiers
- Kills 5 and injuies 6
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Boston Tea Party
- They went aborad three tea ships , broken open the crates and dumped out 45 tons of tea
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Introlerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament, in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party. -
Second Continental Congress
- First gathered in May 1775 , many of the same delegates from the first continental congress returned
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Battle of Bunker Hill
- In June 1775 , american troops accupied two hills north of boston : breeds hill and buncker hill
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Olive Branch Petiton
- It was the Congress' last attempt to get King George III of Great Britain to reason with them.
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Declaration Of Independence
- Drafted by Thomas Jefferson
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Common Sense is published
- Originally published anonymously, "Common Sense" advocated independence for the American colonies from Britain and is considered one of the most influential pamphlets in American history.
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Trenton
- Trenton was occupied by three regiments of Hessian soldiers commanded by Colonel Johann Rall for a total of about 1,400 men.
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Battle at Saratoga
- another brittish army led by general burgoyne objective was to cut new england off from the rest of the colonies
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Yorktown
- wasington troops gather with brittish troops.
- cornwalls is left to face an army twice the size of his own.
- cornwalls suffered many casualties at coupens , south carolina
