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The French & Indian War
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. Paying the war's expenses led to the American Revolution. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was on March 5, 1770, a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred American citizens where abusing the British soldiers, The Americans where verbally being rude and they where also throwing rocks, snowballs with ice, and sticks. -
The Boston Tea Party
American colonists where frustrated and angry at the British for raising tax on tea. So American colonists dressed up as Native Americans and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. -
Lexington & Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775. -
The Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is a paper that was written and signed by 46 people all where from the 13 states. -
The Battle of Saratoga
In New York on Sep 19 - Oct 7, 1777. The American defeat of the superior British army furthered the hope for independence. -
The Battle of Yorktown
Siege of Yorktown, The Americans entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. -
The Treaty of Paris
This treaty was signed on September 3, 1783, by signing this it gave the American colonies and Great Britain, it ended the American Revolution and gave the .U.S independence.
