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britain sets a tax that requires a stamp on all public documents like newspapers or legal documents.
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Boston colonists are shot by british troops.
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Angry with a new tax on tea, some boston colonists calling themselves the sons of liberty board british ships and dump crates of tea into the boston harbor.
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Representatives from the colonies get together to unite and oppose british taxes.
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The Revolutionary War starts and Paul Revere makes his famous ride to warn the colonists that the"british are coming".
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The actual fighting starts with the first"shot heard around the world" The americans win as the british retreat.
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The Green Mountain boys led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold capture Fort Ticonderoga from the british.
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Major battle where William Prescott told the american troops"dont fire until you the whites of their eyes".
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The Continental Congress agrees to Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence.
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George Washington and his troops cross the delaware river on christmas night and surprise the enemy.
