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A 1763 conflict between Native Americans and the British over settlement of Indian lands in the Great Lakes area. -
Law forbidding English colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. -
The colonists stopped buying sugar and they switched to coffee because they didn't want to pay taxes for sugar. -
Britain put a tax on all paper goods in the colonies, so they can raise money to pay for the French-Indian War -
It taxed British goods that were imported to the Americans. -
A group of British soldiers shot 5 American colonist -
The Native Americans dumped valuable tea in the ocean -
After the Boston Tea Party, British publish an Intolerable Act that aimed to punish the Massachusetts colonies. -
The Twelve Delegates from the American colonies met to discuss about the future of America. -
It was one of the first battles of the Revolutionary War, and no one knows who fired the first bullet. -
It was a war that the Americans had to fight for their independence from Great Britain. -
The colonies made a final offer of peace to Britain, agreeing to be loyal to the British government if it addressed their rights as British citizens. -
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that was used to change the minds of people who wanted to peacefully settle their differences with the British government to fight for independence instead. -
It was a document that announced the separation of the 13 colonies from Great Britain. -
The Americans won the war with the British troop, this was the turning point in the American Revolution. -
A weak constitution that governed America during the Revolutionary War. -
Many of Washington's troops died by a disease called chickenpox -
Washington out-smarted the British, he surrounded them and eventually made them surrender. -
The Treaty ended the Revolutionary War, and recognized the Independence of America -
An agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that defined the legislative structure and representation each state would have under the United States Constitution.
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