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parliament passed the sugar act, taxing sugar and coffee.
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this taxed any paper product
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british soldiers opened fire on a crowd that was pelting them with snow balls and rocks.
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protesters of the tax parliament threw tea into the boston harbor
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It was a colonial revolt between the british and the americans.
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The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies won independence from Great Britain, becoming the United States of America.
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american troops defeated the british
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General Charles Cornwallis surrendered 8,000 British soldiers and seamen to a French and American force at Yorktown, Virginia, bringing the American Revolution to a close.
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a secret meeting held to redraft the articles of confederation
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the constitution was ratified and became the law of the land.
