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The townshend acts is a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the British Parliament . The acts are named after Charles Townshend who proposed the progrm
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The Boston massacre was the killing of 5 colonist by British soildiers who went to support a British sentry
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The Boston Tea Party happened in 1773, Patriots dressed as Mohawk Native Americans to dump over 300 hundred gallons of tea into the Boston harbor after the British Parliament removed tax on everything but tea.
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
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Paul Revere warned the patriots that the British was coming his famous words were " Red coats are coming".
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The first shots were fired just after dawn in Lexington,Massachusetts the morning of the 19th. No one knows who fired the first shots.
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On June 17, 1775 early in the Revolutionary War the British defeated the Americans at Bunker Hill in Massachusetts . Despite their loss the inexperienced Colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against the enemy, and the battle provided them with an important Confidence boost.
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The 2nd Continental Congress was a large meeting of delegates from 13 colonies that had in 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , soon after warfare in the American revolutionary war had begun
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On this day the United States had freed themselves from British an independence.
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George Washington crossed the Delaware on the night of Christmas , or the night after in 1776 this this happened during the Battle of Trenton.
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the treaty of Paris negotiated the United States and Great Britain , ended the Revolutionary War and recognized American independence.
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On April 30 ,1789 George Washington took oath as the 1st president of the states under the american constitution.
