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Period: to
American Revolution
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Stamp Act
- tax on anything paper -legal documents, playing cards, stamps, newspapers, etc
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Townshend Act
- tax imported goods
- used to help form governments
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Boston Massacre
- druken mob throws snowballs
- British fire into crowd ; kill 3, wound 2
- troops get charged with murder
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Boston Tea Party
http://bit.ly/KM5mtQ- colonists dumb 45 tons of the British tea into the Boston Harbor -
Intolerable Acts
- punitive laws passed by the British Parliament
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Second Contential Congress
- some Americans divided for independece, others for colonial self rule.
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Battle of Bunker Hill
- British army attacked the colonists at their fort
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Olive Branch Petition
- final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies
- affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain and entreated the king to prevent further conflict
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Common Sense is Published
- Thomas Paine- arguments in favor of American independence
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Decloration of Independence
- Thomas Jefferson was the main author
- Based on the era of Enlightenment
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Trenton
- Vigorously pursued by the British forces under Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis, the American commander sought to gain the protection of the Delaware River
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Battle at Saratoga
- Turning point for revloution
- Colonists win
- Brings Frence into war as American allies
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Battle at Yorktown
- colonists join French troops
- British surrendered again
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Treaty of Paris
- ends Revolutionary war
