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A global conflict that involved Europe, North America, and Indian powers before ending at Europe -
Britain placed a tax on all paper goods which made colonists upset that they we being taxed without letting them know beforehand -
It stopped Americas from going to lands acquired from the French after the war which made trading a lot harder -
The first law raised money for the king so they could increase taxes on non-British goods shipped to the colonies. -
A small group of Militia united to fight the British for their freedom that small Militia would later become America -
Similar to the Stamp Act it taxes not only paper but on glass, lead, paint, and tea -
British Redcoats guarding the Boston House shot at a crowd of civilians, killing three men and starting the revolution -
a series of four laws to punish -
people dressed as Indians dumped tea into the ocean boycotting the Stamp Act -
Marked the start of the American War of Independence -
Sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared -
The document announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain It was the last of a series of steps that led the colonies to final separation from Great Britain -
General George Washington and the Continental Army famously crossed the Delaware River -
The turning point of the Revolution giving a decisive victory to the Americans supported by the French -
Made living conditions extremely difficult -
Washington's forces defeated Lord Charles Cornwallis' veteran army dug in at Yorktown Virginia -
it granted the U.S. western British territory -
An agreement was made during the Constitutional Convention that the American government would have two houses in Congress -
A rebellion on taxed whiskey -
An act making everyone act entitled to other states