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Between 1756-1763
Colonies did not want this war
Was against England and France, but colonies were forced to fight against the French.
Resulted in a English victory

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Became king in 1760
Colonists hated him
Forced the colonies to fight for him during French and Indian War

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The Proclamation of 1763 was issued in response to a revolt of Native Americans
This proclamation closed colonial expansion westward and was the first act to affect all 13 colonies
Forbade colonists from buying land from natives

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1764
Attempted to curb the smuggling of sugar into the colonies
Introduced by George Grenville
Amended the existing 1733 Sugar and Molasses act

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1765
Had to be paid in British currency
Posed a direct tax on Colonists that bought printed things
Was made to help pay for troops stationed in the colonies

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1775
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
The battles were fought in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston
They marked the outbreak of armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in America

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was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
It succeeded the First Continental Congress
The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence

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March 5th,1770
Colonists mobbed English Soldiers, caused the soldiers to fire out of panic
Barely a massacre but it was manipulated to seem worse so that people would start a revolution
Resulted in 5 dead patriots

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December 16, 1773
Political Protest
The Sons of Liberty, some disguised as Native Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, which had 342 chests of tea on board.
Was because of the Tea Act issued by England

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Meeting of Delegates from 12 colonies
In Carpenters Hall, Philadelphia
Agreed to meet in a year if they didn't get what they wanted

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1776
Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence
Third President
Was "voluntold" to write the Declaration

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1776
Helped write the declaration
Inventor
Founding Father
As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment

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1776
was a signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776
governor of Massachusetts
President of the 2nd Continental Congress

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1776
John Adams was an American statesman who served as the second President of the United States and the first Vice President
Helped with Declaration of Independence in 1776
Leader for the revolution

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1775
He is best known for his midnight ride to alert the colonial militia in April 1775
Paul Revere was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and Patriot in the American Revolution
Died in 1881

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1783
Ended the Revolutionary War
Signed in Paris by representatives of America and King George
Details included fishing rights and restoration of property and prisoners of war

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1777
The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign
Decisive victory to Americans
2 small battles near Saratoga

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1776
British Army officer
In the United States and the United Kingdom he is best remembered as one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence
He also served as a civil and military governor in Ireland

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1776
Thomas Jefferson got most of his ideas in the declaration from Paine
American political activist
Wrote "Common Sense"
Declaration got its layout from his book "Common Sense"

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The United States Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress
announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, would now regard themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states no longer under British rule
Formed The United States of America

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1781
American victory
Last major land battle of war
Started September 28th, 1781.
Ended October 19th, 1781.