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Britain put taxes on all paper goods.
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Taxes on tea, people are angry so people dump crates of tea in the Boston Harbor.
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Started the war. Warn people that the "British is coming".
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13 colonies wanted to break away from great Britain.
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Fights begin. First shot "heard around the world" happened.
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Revolutionary War starts and Paul Revere makes his ride to warn people the british are coming.
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The Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British.
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Major battle where William Prescott told the American troops "don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes
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The Continental Congress agrees to Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.
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George Washington and his troops cross the Delaware River on Christmas night and surprise the enemy.
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The Continental Congress adopts the "Stars and Stripes" Flag sewn by Betsy Ross.
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British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army to the Americans after suffering defeat at the Battles of Saratoga.
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France recognized the United States as an independent country with the Treaty of Alliance.
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The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War. British General Cornwallis surrender at Yorktown was the unofficial end to the war.
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Treaty that officially ended the war.
