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The French and Indian War
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Writ of Assistance
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Treaty of Paris
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Sugar Act and Colonist Response
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Stamp Act
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Sons of Liberty Formed
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Declaratory Act
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Townshend Acts
Townshend Acts were costing
more to enforce than they would ever bring in -
Boston Massacre
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Tea Act
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Boston Tea Party
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First Continental Congress meets
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Intolerable Acts
- Shut down Boston harbor.
- Authorized British commanders to house soldiers in vacant private
- General Thomas Gage, commander-in-chief of British forces in North America, was appointed the new governor of Massachusetts.
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Minutemen
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Battle of Lexington
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Battle of Concord
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Second Continental Congress
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Continental Army
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Battle of Bunker Hill
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Olive Branch Petition
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Loyalists and Patriots
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John Locke's Social Contract
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Midnight riders: Revere, Dawes, Prescott
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Publication of Common Sense
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Washington's Christmas night Suprsie attack
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Declaration of Independence
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Redcoats push Washington's army across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania
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Saratoga
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French-American Alliance
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Valley Forge
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Friedrich von Steuben and Marquis de Lafayette
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British victories in the South
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British surrender at Yorktown
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Treaty of Paris