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Britain sets a tax that requires a stamp on all public documents like news papers or legal documents. The colonist did not agree with this new law and this led to unrest in the colonist and the Stamp Act Congress (October, 1765).
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The Revolutionary War started and Paul Revere makes his famous ride to warn the colonist that the "British are coming".
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The actual fighting starts with the first "shot heard around the world". The Americans win as the British retreat.
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Major battle where William Prescott told the American troops "don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes".
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The Continental Congress agrees to Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.
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George Washington and his troops cross the Delaware River on Christmas night and surprise the enemy.
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British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army to the Americans after suffering defeat at the Battles of Saratoga.
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France recognized the United States as an independent country with the training at Valley Forge.
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Defined the official government of the United States
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The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War. British General Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown was the unofficial end to the war.
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Treaty that officially ended the war.
