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End of the Seven Years' War
War to establish control over Silesia and for colonial supremacy in North America and India. -
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Independence Day of EEUU
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Townshend Acts Laws
Legislation passed by the British Parliament in 1767 that required stricter regulations on trade in the American colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The culmination of several clashes between British soldiers and the people of Boston in front of the old state house on King Street. -
Boston Tea Party
American patriots opposed the taxes in the Townshend Act. Protesters,, destroyed a full shipment of tea shipped by the East India Company. -
The continental congresses.
Creation of the first and second continental congresses to carry out the declaration of independence -
Declaration of independence
Is a document written by the second Continental Congress in the Pennsylvania State House that was at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain -
The Alliance Treaty
Defensive alliance between France and the United States of America, formed in the midst of the War of Independence, which promised mutual military support should fighting break out between French and British forces. -
British surrender at Yorktown
He pitted the independence fighters and their French allies against the British under Lord Cornwallis. -
Paris treaty
It was signed between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America and ended the War of Independence of the United States
