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Britain sets a tax that requires a stamp on all public documents like newspapers or legal documents. The colonists did not like having this tax placed on them. This led to unrest in the colonies and the Stamp Act Congress (October 1765).
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5 Boston colonists are shot by British troops.
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Angry with a new tax on tea, some Boston colonists calling themselves the Sons of Liberty board British ships and dump crates of tea into the Boston Harbor.
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Representatives from the colonies get together to unite and oppose British taxes.
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The American Revolution (1775-83) is also known as the American Revolutionary War and the U.S.
War of Independence. The conflict arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain’s
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The Battles of Saratoga were a series of battles that culminated in the Battle of Saratoga and the surrender of British General John Burgoyne. This decisive victory by the Americans was a turning point of the Revolutionary War.
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The Continental Congress adopts the "Stars and Stripes" Flag sewn by Betsy Ross. British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army to the Americans after suffering defeat at the Battles of Saratoga.
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The Continental army under George Washington spends the winter training at Valley Forge. France recognized the United States as an independent country with the Treaty of Alliance.
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Defined the official government of the United States. 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.
