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February 10, 1763. Britain wins the war against the French and protects the colonies, but is left with a huge war debt. Huge British debt causes them to start imposing unfair taxes on the colonies.

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March 22, 1765. British tax on all paper goods. Unfair taxes without representation caused colonists to get mad.

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October 7, 1765. Colonies met to decide what to do about the stamp act. Colonies coming together to revolt against Britain

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1765. Forced colonists to house British troops. Made the colonists feel like their rights were disappearing

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March 18, 1766. British government was pressured into repealing a tax. First evidence of how America was chafing under British rule.

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1766.  Parliament said that they could do whatever they wanted to the American colonies. Got colonists even angrier.

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March 1770. Repealed most of the Townshend act taxes. Proved how unhappy colonists were with the taxes.

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May 1773. Taxes on tea not from Britain to make tea from the East India Trading Company cheaper, drove up the general price of tea. Caused colonies to hate Britain even more.

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December 16, 1773. Colonists protest taxes by throwing millions of dollars of tea into the ocean. Evidence of colonists revolt.

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1774. Acts passed to punish the colonies for the Boston tea party. Got the colonists even madder and more likely to revolt.

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September 5, 1774. First time most of the colonies met together. Beginnings of American government.

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March 5, 1775. British soldiers fired on a crowd of Bostonians. Got the colonies even more fired up to fight the British.

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April 19, 1775.  First shots of the war fired at Lexington and Concord. The day our fight for freedom started.

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May 10, 1775. Meeting of colonies to organize the American revolution. Talked about the revolution, basically started it.

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August 7, 1776.  Document that declared America’s independence from Britain.  Told the British that America was independent.