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Great Britain and France sign a Treaty ending the 7 Years War/French and Indian War with Great Britain coming out on top.
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King George III prohibited all settlement west of the Appalachian mountains.
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Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, but passes the Declaratory Act the same day and it states that Britain has the right to tax the colonies "In all cases"
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Britain taxes glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea.
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Patriotic colonists throw snowballs, sticks, rocks, and bricks at British Soldiers causing them to fire upon the crowd, killing five.
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Parliament allows the East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonies, giving them an edge over the colonial merchants.
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The Sons of Liberty, led by Samuel Adams, dressed like Indians and brarded an East India Company ship and dumped £9,000 worth of tea into Boston Harbor.
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Parliament passes a series of acts to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party, but this backfires because thin only causes the colonies to unite.
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Delagates from the 13 Colonies meet to go against the Intolerable Acts.
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Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Wentworth Cheswell ride to Lexington to warn Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and the Militiamen that "The British are coming."
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The British Soldiers attack Lexington and Concord and fight the Minutemen who are prepared because of the warning that Paul Revere and company gave them. These were the first two battles of the Revolutionary War.
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The delagates at the second Continental Congress, which included several delagates from the first Continental Congress and Benjamin Franklin, select George Washington to lead the military as the General.
