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a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldier ,British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally. -
an act of protest in which a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate against both a tax on tea (which had been an example of taxation without representation) and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company -
Delegates from twelve of Britain's thirteen American colonies met to discuss America's future under growing British aggression. -
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
tells the story of Paul Revere and his historic ride to warn the town that the British soldiers were coming that help the minmen get ready for fight the british soldiers -
marked the start of the American War of Independence and the minutemen fought the british soldier and killed more british soldiers then british killed minutemen. -
The American patriots were defeated at the Battle of Bunker Hill, but they proved they could hold their own against the superior British Army. Americans killed more British than British kill Americans -
the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. they become a county if they win the war. -
The American defeat of the superior British army lifted patriot morale, furthered the hope for independence, and helped to secure the foreign support needed to win the war. -
ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation.