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French and Indian War created the first main hostilities between the Colonies and Great Britian as England demanded that Colonists pay for war debt
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The Sugar Act created a tax on sugar and molasses that adversly effected colonial trade in the French West Indies and else where
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The Currency Act effectively allowed Parliament to have control over colonial currency
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Stamp Act required colonists to by stamps on certain paper goods
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The Stamp Act Congress was created to protest the Stamp Act and list grievences of other Acts passed by Congress
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Townshend Act created tazes on glass, paint, oil, lead,paper and tea
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Tea Act was created to prop up the East India Company, it also undermined local merchants
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Sons of Liberty boarded three ships dressed as Native Americans and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor
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The Intolerable Acts were a series of six separate acts created to force the colonies to bare the burden of war debts from the French and Indian war
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Delegates met in Philadelphia to discuss grievences with England, it was important that the King and Parliament understood Colonial grievences
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British soliders shot on Boston citizens and killed 7
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"Shot heard around the world" General Gage, lead a group of British soliders from Boston to seize gunpowser stockpiles in Lexington and Concord
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Delegates met in Philadelphia to figure things out,decided they needed a Continental Army, delcared George Washington as lead of Army and created an Olive Branch Petition to King George
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The British drive colonists from Breed's Hill, American troops accidently took up position on Breed's hill instead of Bunker Hill like directed
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"Common Sense "challenged the British government and openly asked for independence
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Congress debates, revises and adopts the Declaration of Independence
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Battle of Saratoga was considered the turning point in the American Revolution
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George Washington and his men retired to spend the winter of 1777 in Valley Forge, it was full of stravation, cold and horrid conditions
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The United States and French sign an alliance in which the French agree to lend support to the American cause
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The Articles of Confederation was the first consitituion of the United States
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General Cornwallis surrended to Americans at Yorktown, the war is offically over
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Treaty of Paris signed by Americans and British, England offically agrees to recongize American Independence