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George III Becomes King England
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The Stamp Act
An act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London. -
Stamp Act Congress meets in New York City
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The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were abusing them verbally and throwing various missiles -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, -
The Coercive Act
The Intolerable Acts were a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws aimed to punish Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest of the Tea Act, a tax measure enacted by Parliament in 1773. -
First Continental Congress Meets in Philadelphia
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The Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, and signed on July 8 in a final attempt to avoid war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in America. -
Second Continental Cogress meets in Philadelphia
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First shots of the American Revolution
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge. -
Parliament Passes the Townshed Acts
Townshend acts were a series of measures that were passed by the British Parliament that taxed goods imported to American colonies. -
The Adoption of the declaration of independence
Declaration of Independence, in U.S. history, document that was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and that announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. -
The Adoption of the Articles of Confederation
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Treaty of Paris signed-officially ending of the American Revolution