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1764
Sugar Act causing colonists to pay more taxes -
1765
-Patriots were formed
-Sons of liberty formed
-Sam Adams leader -
1765
Stamp Act -
1765
-Britain maintained a sold army in the colonies
-Quartering Act -
1765
-Mob lead by the the sons of liberty take down stamp collector house. -
1766
-Declaratory Act -
1767
-Tax on imported goods
-Townsend Acts -
1770
-Boston Massacre -
1773
-Tea Act -
1773
-Boston Tea Party -
1774
-Intolerable Acts
-Required Colonists to pay back for the tea -
1775
-"Give me liberty or give me death" -
1775
-King George rejects the "Olive Branch" and sends more troops to Boston -
1775
-Battles of Lexington and Concord -
1775
-2nd Congress
-George Washington elected leader. -
1775
-Battle of Bunker Hil -
1776
-Deceleration of Independence -
1776
-Thomas Payne creates common sense -
1777
-Training of the Continental army. -
1777
-Patriots win the Battle of Saratoga -
1778
-France joins the US in the war -
1780
-Clinton captures 3000 patriot soldiers as he takes over Charlestown. -
1781
-General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown.
