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The Treaty of Paris ended the and indian war, france and great britain fought for 9 years, the french lost so France ceded all of its North American possessions east of the Mississippi River to Britain.
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was imposed to provide increased revenues to meet the costs of the British Empire. the enraged colonist did not like the stamp act and will throw riots
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Boston massacre was when a small group of the British army was threatened by a mob and opened fire and killed 5 people. The soldiers where charged with murder
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people boarded ships at anchor and dumped some £10,000 worth of tea into the harbor,
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Convinced that war with Great Britain was inevitable, Virginian Patrick Henry defended strong resolutions for making the Virginia militia to go to war against britain
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Some 2,300 British troops eventually cleared the hill of the Americans, but at the cost of more than 40 percent of the assault force the americans came out winning
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After the Congress recommended that colonies form their own governments. They got what they asked for and thats their independence
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Having been forced to abandon New York City and across New Jersey by the British, George Washington and the Continental Army came back on Christmas night by crossing the ice-strewn Delaware River and hit at dawn
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France began preparing fleets and armies to enter the fight but did not formally declare war on Britain until June 1778. this happened because they made alliance with the US
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After the British defeat at Yorktown, the land battles in America largely died out.,but the fighting continued at sea, mostlt between the British and America’s European
