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-This over taxed colonists which angered them causing rebellion in the colonies
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-After British soldiers shot a a crowd in Boston it fired up the colonists to start rebelling more against the British
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-This congress was put together to discuss the unfair taxes.
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-This battle was known as the shot heard around the world & it was the first major battle of the Revolutionary War
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-They meet in Philadelphia to discuss making the United States of America
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-Although the British won, the colonists saw it as a victory because of the damage it caused the British and how it made them weaker
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-This was a pamphlet that encouraged colonists to become patriots
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-This was the first time the states fully separated from Britain and official became the United States of America
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-Colonists dumped British imported tea into the Boston harbor costing British millions of dollars.
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-It took place on the day after Christmas so all the British soldiers were drunk from Christmas celebration. This was the first time Washington used his gorilla warfare tactics.
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-After this battle the colonists got back New York and New Jersey and after this and Trenton the colonists not believed they could win the war.
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-British surrender convinced the French to help the colonists
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-This battle showed that help from the French would speed up the end of the war
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-The sudden defeat of the British forces boosted the spirits of the colonists and gave them motivation to end the war.
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-Lord Cornwallis was surrounded on land and in the sea by the Americans and the French
