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The Boston massacre was an event that happened on march 5 when a group of British soldiers fired into a crowd of towns people who had been harassing them. The event was followed by a trial where the soldiers were found not guilty. -
The Boston tea party was a protest led by the sons of liberty on December 12, 1773. The protest consisted of dumping 342 chests of tea into the harbor to show they would not be taxed without political representation in the British government. -
The battle of Lexington and concord occurred on April 19, 1775. This battle is what kicked off the american revolutionary war. The British planned to march into Boston and seize arms. The colonist fought back in the Lexington green space. -
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the British siege of Boston in the first stage of the American Revolutionary War. The colonists lost. -
The declaration of independence was signed July 4th, 1776. This paper declared the colonies separating from great Britain. It consists of a general statement of natural rights theory and the purpose of government. -
The British captured New York City and Long Island from the Colonial Army. They took New York because of their ports and loyalist citizens. -
The Battle of Trenton, New Jersey was one of the turning points of the American Revolutionary War. After a long march through the snow, Washington led his troops across the Delaware river on Christmas Day of 1776 to defeat the Hessian mercenaries. -
The Battle of Saratoga occurred in September and October, 1777, during the second year of the American Revolution. It included two crucial battles, fought eighteen days apart, and was a decisive victory for the Continental Army and a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War. -
On December 19th, 1777, 12,000 soldiers and 400 women and children marched into Valley Forge and began to build what essentially became the fourth largest city in the colonies at the time, with 1,500 log huts and two miles of fortifications. -
The Battle of Monmouth was fought near Monmouth Court House on June 28, 1778.The significance of the conflict was that the American retreat ordered by General Charles Lee allowed Clinton's army to continue to New York City. -
On December 29, 1778, British Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell and his force launched a surprise attack on American forces defending Savannah, Georgia, and were successful. -
The siege of Charleston was a major engagement and major British victory, fought between March 29 to May 12, 1780 -
The colonist won the battle of Yorktown on October 19, 1781 (began September 28, 1781). Virginia marked this the conclusion of the last major battle of the American Revolution and the start of a new nation's independence.
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