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France and Britian for fighting for control of the Ohio river valley in North Amercia. great Britain ends up winning, but they go into a massive debt. to pay it off, they start to heavily tax the colonists. This creates the first bit of tension between the colonists and the crown. -
the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War. The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
the province of New York Assembly passed an act to provide for the British regulars, which expired on January 1, 1764. The colonists disputed the legality of this act. -
a street brawl between the Americans and the British army but it quickly escalated and three or four people got shot and one colored person die on the scene -
there were tensions between the Americans and the British colonizers that had been brewing for years since the war. -
The Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the declaration of independence. -
The Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence.
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Victory at Yorktown led directly to the peace negotiations that ended the war in 1783 and gave America its independence.