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Sugar act, strictly enforced
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Sons of liberty created
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Stamp act enacted, taxed stamps and newspapers
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Quartering act, colonists have to house British troops
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Tore down and destroyed the stamp collectors house
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Declatory act, repealed stamp act but gave parliament full control of colonies
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Boston massacre, 5 dead after colonists threw snowballs at British and the brits opened fire
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Tea act
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Boston tea party
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Intolerable acts, shut down Boston Harbor and placed british troops in homes
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1st continental congress, agrees to boycott british goods
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Olive branch petition sent to KIng George, rejected and sent more troops
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Patrick Henry's speech "Give me liberty or give me death."
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Lexington and Concorde
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2nd Continental Congress meets, puts washington in charge
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Battle of Bunker Hill
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Thomas Paine publishes “Common Sense”
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Declaration of Independence approved and signed
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Von Steuben trains soldiers in Valley Forge
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Patriots win at Saratoga
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France signs Alliance with US
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Gen. Clinton captures 3000 patriot soldiers as he takes south carolina
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Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
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Treaty of Paris signed
