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the stamp act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British parliaments. The act which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies.
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what caused the Boston Massacre was the stamp act and the Townshend act.
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American colonists are frustrated and angry at the British for imposing "Taxation without representation" bumping 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India company into the harbor. this is where the colonist's dressed as Indians and through tea over board.
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these battles kicked of the American Revolutionary war. This is that Paul Revere and the other riders sounded the alarms so the militiamen began mobilizing to accept the redcoats.
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this is where new England soldiers faced the British army for the first time in a pitched battle.
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common sense presented the American colonists with a powerful argument for independence from British rules. first and far most, common sense advocated an immediate dedication of independence, postulating a special moral obligation of America to the rest of the world
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in the battle of Trenton December 26 Washington defeated a formidable garrison of Hessian mercenaries before withdrawing. a week later he returned to Trenton to lure the British forces south, the executed a daring night march to capture Princeton on January 3.
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on July 4 1776, the thirteen colonies broke there political connection to the kingdom of the great Britain by declaring independence. the Declaration of Independence was the first formal statement by a nation's people asserting their right to choose their own government.
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having suffered a string of defeats that fall, including losing the capital pf Philadelphia to the British, the American's made a camp for the winter outside of the city. when Washington's men deported in June 1778, they were an improved army from the one that had arrived months earlier.
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the word Saratoga is a shorthand for two battles that gave the coup de g race to the 1777 British invasion from Canada during the American Revolutionary war.
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after the war started on April 2 1780 Americans suffer the worst defeat of the revolution an this day. with the unconditional surrender of major General Benjamin Lincorn yo the British Lieutenat general sir Henry Clinton.
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a combination American force of colonial and French troops laid siege to the British army at Yorktown, Virginia.
