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Stamp Act
The Stamp Act meant that anything to do with paper was taxed. -
First Continental Congress
The objectives were not very clear but with such leadership a set of tasks could be completed. It was agreed upon that the King and Parliment needed to be destroyed. -
Start of Revolutionary War
this was the start of the Revolutionary War, that lasted nearly 8 years. -
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Revolutionary War Timeline
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Second Continental Congress
It was formed to succeed from the First Continental Congress and to tear down the first. -
Battle of Saratoga
The reason this took place was because New England got rid of England as one of the 13 colonies and it ticked them off. -
Battle of Cowpens
The Battle of Cowpens was a decisive victory by the Continental Army forces under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War over the British Army led by Colonel Banastre Tarleton. -
Battle of Yorktown
General Nathanael Greene had taken over command of the American Continental Army in the South. Prior to General Greene's command, the war in the South had not been going very well, but Greene put in some new tactics that enabled American victories and caused the British Army to retreat to the East Coast.
