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March 22, 1765
The Stamp Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain taxed on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.

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March 5, 1770
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The mob started after some children were throwing snowballs at the guards.

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May 10, 1773
The tea act was an act that allowed for less tea to be held by the British company in its warehouses.

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(December 16, 1773)
The Boston Tea Party was a protest for Taxation Without Representation where the protesters Dumped 92 thousand pounds of tea into the ocean.

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September 5, 1774
delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia (which was fighting a Native American uprising and was dependent on the British for military supplies) met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.

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Congress Signs The Declaration of Independence

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Congress Signs The Declaration of Independence

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(July 4,1776)
They signed the declaration of independence to declare they were independent from Britain.

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(September 19 - October 17, 1777)
The Battle of Saratoga occurred in September and October, 1777, during the second year of the American Revolution. It included two crucial battles, fought eighteen days apart, and was a decisive victory for the Continental Army and a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War.

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February 6, 1778
The Treaty of Alliance with France was signed on February 6, 1778, creating a military alliance between the United States and France against Great Britain.

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September 28, 1781 – October 19, 1781
Siege of Yorktown, (September 28–October 19, 1781), joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. The siege virtually ended military operations in the American Revolution

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(December 15, 1791)
The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.