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The document that ended the French and Indian war. Britain takes over Frances territory to the Mississippi River. France no longer have power in the Americas.
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Pontiac leads a rebellion so him and the other Indian tribes can have their land. No English speaking settlers are allowed pass the Ohio River Valley afterwards.
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Pontiac leads a rebellion so him and the other Indian tribes can have their land. No English speaking settlers are allowed pass the Ohio River Valley afterwards.
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The Sugar and Molasses act of 1733 was about to expire so the king made the Sugar Act and lowered the tax price so people wouldn't be so made about paying it.
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The British were running out of money to pay for the French and Indian War. They pass the Stamp Act so everyone had to buy stamps to use any kind of paper.
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This made it legal for British Soldiers to search any property without reason looking for smuggled goods.
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Required all colonists to house and feed any British soldier that asked without being paid.
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This law said that British government had supreme authority to govern the colonies,
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The government started to tax goods before they got into the colonies.
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A mob broke out in front of a British Customs Location. Eventually 5 colonist were killed by British Soldiers.
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Parliament passed the tea act, which gave Britain's East India Company a monopoly on tea.
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Angry colonists sneaked onto the tea boats and dumped all of the tea into the harbor.
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Angry colonists sneaked onto British ships and dumped all of the tea into the harbor.
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The harsh laws passed by the British Parliament. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests.
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A meeting with represented colonies to make decisions about the war
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Also known as the Intolerable Acts, after the Boston Tea Party the king put on strict rules as a punishment.
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A meeting of representatives from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia,
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The first battle between America and Britain.
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A convention of representatives from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.
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A peace treaty America sent the king, but the king declined.
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A pamphlet wrote by Thomas Paine that said the colonies should separate from Britain.
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George Washington's army crossed the icy Delaware on Christmas Day and won a crucial battle of the American Revolution. In the Battle of Trenton (December 26), Washington defeated a formidable garrison of Hessian mercenaries before withdrawing.
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Document signed by the founding fathers stating that they regarded themselves as 13 states, independent, and no longer under British Rule
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American soldiers surrounded a British army force with cannons and men. The British eventually surrendered and that battle is what convinced the French to be Allies with us.
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A military camp northwest of Philadelphia where the American Continental Army spent the winter of 1777–78 during the American Revolutionary War. Starvation, disease, malnutrition, and exposure killed more than 2,500 American soldiers by the end of February 1778.
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The British were forced to surrender 2 days after French Soldiers and patriot soldiers captured the british fort at Yorktown in 1781.
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The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War. The treaty set the boundaries between the British Empire in North America and the United States.