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In 1764, Parlement taxed all sugars and coffee
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In 1765, parliment passed the stamp act
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In 1770, British soldiers open fire on a crowd that was throwing snow balls with rocks inside them.
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In 1773, some colonist hurled cargo boxes full of tea in to the water.
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in 1775, tension between the colonist and british finnally had war at the battle of lextington.
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in 1776 the decloration of independence happend.
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in 1777, British General John Burgoyne achieved a small, but costly victory over American forces led by Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnold.
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In 1781, when the British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his troops in Yorktown, Virginia.
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In 1786, at the Annapolis Convention, delegates from five states called for a Constitutional Convention in order to discuss possible improvements to the Articles of Confederation.
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The U.S Constution was adopted and signed in September 1787, but signing wasn't enough. It had to be ratified by nine of the 13 states before it became binding.
