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Boston Massacre
a street fight caused by colonists throwing stones, sticks, snowballs, all at british soldiers that led to several colonists being killed -
Boston Tea Party
An american protest that was led by "The Sons of Liberty" to the British by throwing over 200 crates of tea overseas on a boat -
Passing of The Intolerable Acts
An act passed by the English parliament as a punishment to the colony of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party which led to a big show of unity -
Paul Revere's Ride
Paul revere was a silversmith like his father before he became a town hero all round the colonies, the reason behind it is because of his ride at midnight where he traveled on his horse and alerted everyone of the british attacks and basically stumped the british's idea to sneak attack the american soldiers -
Creation of the Continental Congress
the congress held a meeting to discuss the intolerable acts and form some sort of boycott to it and delegates from the 13 colonies except for Georgia all attended this meeting -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
a war that basically was the start of the revolutionary war for america after the british came in from boston in an attempt to seize the arms cache but because of paul revere's ride it led to something bigger than just that -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Bunker hill was a war that american patriots were defeated in, but it did show that there was no chance for the british and americans to come to some sort of agreement to get along. -
The Creation of the declaration of Independence
After the parliament kept trying to take more freedom from the americans, a group of delegates chosen by colonists got together to stand their ground and put thomas jefferosn in charge of writing this document and by july 11 1776 this document was ready to sign -
Battles of saratoga
This battle ended in a victory for americans, this led king george to believe the american army was good enough to defend themselves against the british and allowed the alliance with france -
Treaty of Paris
this paper was a signed document to display that britain no longer had control over america and made them an independent nation, it also put an end to the american revolution