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it occurs when activists disguise themselves as Mohawk Indians then board the ships and dump all 342 containers of tea into the harbor.
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it shut down all commercial shipping in Boston harbor until Massachusetts payed the taxes owed on the tea dumped in the harbor and compensation to the East India Company
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The First Continental Congress meets and declares its opposition to the Coercive Acts. The rights to "life, liberty and property" are asserted and delegates agree to a boycott English imports, place an embargo of exports to Britain and discontinue the slave trade.
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The Provincial Congress in Massachusetts orders 13,600 American soldiers to be mobilized and volunteers begin a year long siege of Boston which is held by the British.
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Thomas Jefferson presents the United States Declaration of Independence
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Articles of Confederation - Congress is made sole authority of the new national government.
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France signs a treaty of alliance with the United States and the American Revolution soon becomes a world war.
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The final battle of the Revolutionary War when Americans retaliate by attacking a Shawnee village in Ohio
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Preliminary peace treaty signed in Paris recognising American independence and the British withdrawal from America.
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The Treaty of Paris is ratified by Congress and the American Revolutionary War officially ends