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The boston tea party
The Boston tea party was a protest by the sons of liberty in which they threw massive amounts of taxed tea into the ocean because of the British putting taxes on the tea in the first place. -
lexington and concord
These were the first military engagements of the American revolutionary war. -
The olive branch petition
The olive branch petition was a treaty that was meant to stop a full-on continental war between the British and the Patriots in the colonies.