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The United Kingdom of great British came to exist when the government Eengland and Scotland united
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King George III became more unpopular in American with very new tax levied
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The first continental congress in Philadelphia in September 1774 members urged colonists to take up arms and organize militias
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Fighting finally erupted between colonists and British army in April 1775 in Lexington and concord Massaachusetts meeting soon afterward the second continental congress set up a army
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The second continental congress approved the Declaration of Independence thomas Jefferson wrote the
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And French forces under Washington at Yorktown in 1781 the British decided to end the war
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Treaty of Paris recognized the independence of the American colonies
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Delegates in Philadelphia at the constitutional convention to revivse the articles of confederation