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-1765
-The British taxed the colonies to help pay for the French and Indian war.
-Taxed colonial transactions

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-June 15-July 2 1767
-Four acts to show that the British had power over the colonists
-This upset the colonists and acts of rebellion and violence toward the British began

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-March 5, 1770
-Colonists were shot at after harassing British soldiers, and the soldiers were charged with murder.
-This incident caused an uproar among colonists.

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-December 16, 1773
-Bostonians protesting all of the British taxes dumped 10,000 euros worth of tea from the East India Company into Boston Harbor.

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-March-June 1774
-Parliament initiated four acts in response to the Boston Tea Party, targeting and separating Massachusetts.
-The colonies viewed this as very oppressive and it fueled the fire for revolution more.

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September 5, 1774
-56 delegates represented all of the colonies except Georgia. This meeting was organized by the Committees of Correspondence.

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-April 19, 1775
-Marks beginning of Revolutionary War
-Won by colonies
-Paul Revere's ride took place as well

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-June 17, 1775
-Technically the British won this battle, and it took place on Breed's Hill.
-This was a victory for the colonists because it cost the British more than 40 percent of their troops.

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-January 1776
-Thomas Paine wrote a 50-page pamphlet that called for independence, and sold over one-hundred thousand of them in the course of a few months.

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-July 4, 1776
-Written by Thomas Jefferson
-America declared itself a separate entity from British rule.

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-December 25-26, 1776
-George Washington leads the Continental Army across the Delaware River on Christmas night.
-It was a surprise victory, taking 900 captive.
-The victory here and at Trenton and Princeton kept up the Colonies' morale.

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-Summer 1777
-Colonial forces overpowered the British and British General Burgoyne was forced to surrender.

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-December 19, 1777- June 19, 1778
-After a few battles were lost, Washington's army settles at Valley Forge for the winter.
-The Colonial troops faced starvation, disease, and cold, but survived the winter.

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-February 6, 1778
-The French had helped the U.S. under the table for two years, but they signed a treaty to make it a formal arrangement.

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-March 1, 1781
-This was the first written government plan that the United States created.
-Congress officially ratified the Articles of Confederation on March 1, 1781.

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-September-October 1781
-After a long battle, The U.S. won.
-The Battle of Yorktown is widely considered to be the last battle of the Revolutionary war.
-British General Cornwallis gave up his army of over 7,000 men here.

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-September 3, 1783
-Though there was still some sea battles, the Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War, and the United States were recognized as their own country.