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Britiain allows the colonies to be independent.
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Removed several land barriers for the colonists.
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The sugar act actually reduced the tax on molasses, but implementation (stopped smuggling) of the tax which angered colonists who were used to a system of Salutary Neglect.
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A tax on all paper documents produced in the colonies. Papers must have an official stamp to prove that the compony or person had paid the tax.
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UNder this act, colonists must provide housing and supplies for British soldiers stationed in their colony
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Tax on paper, led, paint, glass, and tea. These taxes are for the sole purpose of generating revenue for England..
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Colonists gathered and taunted the British soldiers and an altercation took place and resulted in the death of 5 colonists.
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Sons of Liberty dump all the tea from a British Tea Ship into the Boston Harbor
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England closed off the Port of Boston in response to the Boston Tea Party
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12 of the 13 colonies send representatives to gather and discuss the Intolerable Acts
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First military engagement of the revolution
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First big battle of the Revolutionary war; it was fought near Boston. The British drove the Americans from the fort only because the Americans were running out of amunition.
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Last ditch effort of AMerican colonists to make peace with the British crown. The king refused to even listen to it.
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Thomas Paine wrote this to convince people to continue fighting in the revolutionary war
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Convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting
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Establishing the United States as a nation. Ordered and approved by the Continental Congress and written mostly by Thomas Jefferson.
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Arguing for independance from Britain
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Battles that improved the moral and spirit of the colonial army.
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Turning point of the Revolutionary War. The scope of the victory is made clear by a few clean facts. 5,895 British and Hessian troops surrendered their arms.
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Major victory for the British in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War.
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The Patriots defeated the Loyalist Militia commanded by British major Patrick Ferguson.
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Victory by the Continental Army forces under Brigadier General Danial Morgan in the Southern campaign of the American Revolution over the British Army led by Colonel Banastre Tarleton.
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The last battle of the Revolutionary war, fought near the coast of Virginia. Lord Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington.
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Signed in Paris representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America ended the American Revolutionary war.