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Epensive tx stamps on newpapers and legal documents
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Arrive in response to political unrest.
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A group of British soldiers opend fire on a crowd of people in Boston, Massachusetts killing five and wounding six men.
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A group of colonists boarded three British ships in the Boston harbor and threw their tea cargo into the sea
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British Parliament passed a series of laws that came to be known as Intolerable Acts.
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Delegates from 12 colonies met at the First Continental Congress to discuss how to react to the Intolerable acts.
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First battle of the Revolutionary War.
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Continental Congress appoints George WAshington commander-in-chief of Continental Army.
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The first major battle of the War of Independence.
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Thomas Paine publishes "Common Sense" anonymously in Philadelphia.
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The Second Contiental Congress adopted the declaration of Independence
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Considered the turning point of the American Revolution and encouraged France to openly support the Americans against Britain.
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The first document that was written after the Revolutionary War that served as our first plan of government.
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Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington In Yorktown, Virginia.
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Officially ended the Revolutionary War.
