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Stamp Act
The Stamp Act required that all the colonists buy special tax stamps for all kinds of products and activities. the stamps had to be placed on almoct everything. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was essentially ..... an extremely violent boycott. On this day an angry crowd of sailors surrounded a tiny group of soldiers and started throwing rocks and snowballs at them. Of coarse the soldiers got angry and fired back which killed five and wounded six. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of colonists called the Sons of Liberty organized to stop the tea from being unloaded. So on this night, a group of men dressed up as Indians and dumped 342 cases into the Harbor, which was 90,000 pounds of tea, which was worth thousands of dollars. -
"Shot hear round the World" Lexington and Concord
On this day, General Thomas Gage sent 700 troops to caoture some important colonial leaders. 77 minutemen were waiting when the british arrived., the British told the minutemen to leave but they refused. Then out of nowhere a shot rang out but nobody knows who did it. This shot started the American Revolution. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declartion of Independence is a great piece of writing that declared Americans independence from England. -
Regulator Movement
North Carolina Regulators prtested against governor Tryon and British tax policies. -
Battle of Saratoga
This battle marked as a major turning point in the war.The Americans won and ended the british hopes of an easy victory.It also hel-p convince Europeans that the Americans had a chance of winning. -
Battle of Yorktown
On this day, the American and French lined up in two separate lines facing each other. The AMericans won and this was the last major battle.
