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King George the lll was know for leading the British in the American revolutionary war.
The revolution lasted 8 years because King George refused to surrender all of the colonies.
King George didn't agree to surrender the colonies because he thought the members of the 1st continental congress were traitors.

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George Washington  thought that it was best for the colonists to declare independence from England.
George Washington was also know as the commander of chief starting when the second continental congress started.
Washington led the the colonial forces to victory over the British and became a national hero during the American revolutionary war.

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Lord Cornwallis led several successful campaigns during the American revolutionary war.
After the revolutionary war  Cornwallis went on to serve as governor in Ireland and India, where he made significant reforms
Cornwallis is known for surrendering his troops in  October 1781

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Paul Revere  took part in the Boston Tea Party and was principal rider for Boston's Committee of Safety
Paul Revere is most famous for him  yelling "The British are coming " as a warning.
In the 1770s Paul immersed himself in the movement toward political independence from Great Britain.

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Adams was a leader of the American Revolution and served as the second U.S. president from 1797 to 1801.
From 1789 to 1797 John Adams became the first vice president.
John Adams also served a term as the nations second president.

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Hancock was an American merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution.
John was also a signer of the declaration of independence in 1776.
He was president of the Second Continental Congress from 1775 to 1777, when the Declaration of Independence was adopted and the United States was born.

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Jefferson was in the Continental Congress and was governor of Virginia.
Thomas  was able to influence the development of the federal government  through his correspondence.
Jefferson was the third president and was responsible for doubling the size of the United States

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During the American Revolution, Ben Franklin  served in the Second Continental Congress and helped draft the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Ben Franklin  also negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War during the time1775 through 1783.
In the early time of the revolution Ben went to France as the official diplomat and ambassador of the thirteen colonies

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Thomas Paine volunteered as a personal assistant to General Nathanael Greene while  traveling with the Continental Army.
Paine was a writer that was born in England and supported revolutionary causes in America and Europe.
Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a strong defense of American Independence from England.

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The Stamp Act of 1765 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which meant that peoples products like mail had to be stamped before they could do anything with it.
The stamp act forced a direct tax on the colonist.
The act required that legal documents and printed materials must have a tax stamp

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The French and Indian war was the final colonial war that was in 1689 and went all the way through 1763.
The French and Indian war started on if the upper Ohio was a part of the British Empire.
The war officially ended in 1763 with the British winning they took control of the lands that had been claimed by France

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The Boston massacre was basically a street fight with protesters who were known as patriots.
Adams believed that the cause for self-government would be damaged if Boston  justice turned out to be little more than lynch law.
There was only really only five people who died during the massacre.

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At the end of the French and Indian war the British issued the proclamation of 1763.
The colonist were angry about this because they felt it was to keep them under the control of England.
The proclamation stopped the American colonist from settling west of Appalachia.

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The Boston Tea Party was a political  protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.
It fueled the tension between Britain and America that ultimately led to the Revolutionary War, which started in 1775 and led to America winning its independence from Britain.
The protesters tossed more then 92,000 pounds of tea in the Boston harbor they destroyed over 1million dollars worth of tea.

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On July 4 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain.
This summarized the colonist motivations for seeking independence.
Charges Against Human Rights, Charges Against the King and Parliament, and the Statement of Separation and Signatures were all major parts of the Declaration of Independence.

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The battle of Saratoga happened in September -October 1777 while the American revolution was happening.
The battle was a series of conflict that ultimately convinced the French of America's strength.
After that France declared war on England.

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The Tea Act 1773  was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.
The act was to really  reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company.
Colonists objected to the Tea act because they believed that it violated their right to be taxed only by their own elected representatives.

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The Sugar act was British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar  and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies.
Many colonist  said the new taxes wasn't fair. Colonists  had no say in making tax laws because they didn't have representatives in Parliament.
The Sugar act made smuggling of illegal molasses from non-British territories a lot harder.

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On September 3, 1783 the treaty of Paris officially ended the American Revolutionary War.
There was two treaties  signed at Paris in 1814 and 1815 that ended the Wars.
The treaty was named because of the city in which it was negotiated and signed.

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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles started on April 19, 1775.
This is when Paul revere warned that the British were coming on the horse but there was some loss but not a lot of people died as it may seem.
This was about six months after the first continental congress meeting.

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The siege of Yorktown was the British surrendering to the Americans leading the Americans to their first victory.
Lord Cornwallis did not officially surrender his sword he sent his second in command.

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On September 5, 1774, delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia as the first continental congress.
This meeting was to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.
The result was a declaration by the colonies to that stated the rights for the colonists, and stopped the trade from the British.

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The 2nd  was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that formed in Philadelphia in May 1775, soon after the launch of the American Revolutionary War.
It succeeded the First Continental congress which met between September and October of 1774.
John Hancock was was elected to be president of the Second Continental Congress on May 24,1775