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It started hatered towards Boston
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Taxing tea made people throw tea over ships
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To punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party
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Washington joined the Continental Congress as a delegate from Virginia. The next year, the Congress offered Washington the role of commander in chief of the Continental Army.
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8 minutemen died, and redcoats moved to Concord. First battle officialy started the revolution.
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The British won but it was a moral victory for the colonists.
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Colonists wanted independence and freedom.Thomas Jefferson and John Adams Edward Rutledge, Benjamin Franklin wrote it
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The British Army successfully moved against the American Continental Army led by George Washington.
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Changing coarse of war making British to move south.
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Burgoyne had split up his 7500-man army into three columns to sweep around where he believed the Americans might be.
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Washington surpised British with an attack in Yorktown and the British were defeated.
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Treaty of Paris was signed officially ending the 8 year war.