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January 18, 1689
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Samuel Adams was known for his ability to harness popular resentment against Parliament's authority to tax the colonies in a productive manner.
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January 23, 1737,
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January 14, 1741
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April 13, 1743
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The French and Native American war started in 1754, and ended in 1763.
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Proclamation of 1763 was a British produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. The Proclamation Line prohibited colonists from building on land acquired from the French following the French and Native American War.
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March 5, 1770
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor
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September 5, 1774
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord signaled the start of the American Revolutionary war. The British Army set out from Boston to capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington and destroy the Americans store of weapons and ammunition in Concord.
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June 17, 1775
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The Declaration of Independence was written to gin independence from Great Britain.
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September 19, 1777
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September 28, 1781 – October 19, 1781
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The Constitution is the supreme law of the US. It originally had 7 articles that made the base of the government.
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December 10, 1898