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Taken place on King street in Boston, the Boston Massacre is known as what started off the Revolutionary War. The deadly riot started off as a brawl between a Colonist and a British soldier, as things quickly escalated it turned into a party of colonists as well as British Soldiers, as the colonists rebelled against British Tax laws. The colonists struck soldiers with clubs, later on the colonists pleaded Soldiers to hold fire. Someone said fire, a soldier shot, causing more havoc, with 5 dead.
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The Boston Tea Party, known as one of the first significant acts of protest in America occurring at Griffin's Wharf in Boston. The British were in debt causing for British Parliament to impose taxes on American colonists. They enabled acts such as The Stamp Act and Townshends Acts. Later on the Tea Act was passed, allowing the British East India Company to sell tea to the colonies "duty-free" for cheap, still taxing it infuriating colonists.
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The Intolerable Acts were four laws passed by the British Parliament as punishment for the Boston Tea Party. These four laws were known as the following: Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act. The Boston Port Act was made to block imports and exports at the Port of Boston, also mandated for Colonists to repay the East India Company. The Boston Port act is just one example of how much control British Parliament wanted over colonies.
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The creation of the Continental Congress would be an event that lasts to modern U.S. The colonists legislature authorized delegates to attend congress in order to set terms of a boycott. They first met in Carpenters hall, where they issued a Declaration of Rights, they also passed the Articles of Association. The Continental Congress would meet again on May 10,1775 in Independence Hall after the Revolutionary war had already commenced.
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The Battle of Bunker Hill took place in the early stages of the Revolutionary War, where British troops were sent to surround the city of Boston.Eventually, British troops were commanded to head to Breed's Hill, there they were interrupted by Colonial troops. With limited supply of ammunition, they waited for British troops to be close enough, they forced the British into a retreat. The British attacked, they went up the hill again.Going hand-to-hand combat, the Americans were forced to retreat.
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Right before the Battles of Lexington and Concord took place, the British troops were tasked to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington. There, Paul Revere was tasked to help avoid the arrests. He first used two lanterns and placed them on the Old Church steeple to alert the British had left Boston. At 10 p.m. Revere rode on his horse to meet Adams and Hancock. His next stop was to Concord where he was captured by British troops then let go. He gave Colonial troops a huge advantage.
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After years of tension between the Colonies and the British, the Battles of Lexington and Concord helped set things off. At around sunrise, around 700 British troops arrived in Lexington where they encountered roughly 77 militiamen. The outnumbered group were commanded to fire after the first shot rang out. The British then headed to Concord searching for arms, and decided the burn what they could find. The fire got out of control forcing militiamen towards the British and then viceversa.
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The Declaration of Independence is something that has changed the U.S for what it's known today, it was also the first formal statement. The five-man committee was tasked to draft a formal statement. As it was drafted, it would be broken up into 5 sections: An introduction, a preamble, a body divided into two sections, and a conclusion. The Continental Congress met on July 1, the next day 12 of the 13 colonies had agreed, later revising it one last time. It was adapted by congress on July 4th.
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During the second year of the Revolutionary, two battles took place eighteen days apart. The first one, one more country was added into the mix, with the Germans supporting the British. After the battle the British suffered twice as many numbers than the colonists. The second battle, also known as the battle of Bemis Heights, had over 13,000 American troops. By Oct. 7 the British were running low supplies and were forced to withdraw, giving the American troops the victory.
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The Treaty of Paris is what ended the Revolutionary War. Statesmen met with representatives of King George III of Great Britain to negotiate the treaty. As the British wanted to end the war, negotiations stalled, eventually the election of an American Parliament made the treaty possible. Some terms of the treaty are as follows. Great Britain finally gave the U.S recognition for Independence, Defining the U.S border, as well as resolving debt issues.