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A string of prosperous colonies stretched along the eastern coast of North America.
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The Stamp Act imposed taxes on items such as newspapers and pamphlets.
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British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a crowd that was pelting them with stones and snowballs. Five protesters died.
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A handful of colonists hurled a cargo of recently arrived British tea into the harbor to protest a tax on tea.
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The colonists and the British exploded into war in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts.
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The Second Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Britain.
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The American leaders adopted the Declaration, pledging "our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor" to crearing ad protecting the new United States of America.
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The Continental troops at Valley Forge suffered from cold, hunger, and disease.
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The Americans triumphed over the British at the Battle of Saratoga.
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The French fleet blockaded the Chesapeake Bay, which enabled Washington to force the surrender of a British Army at Yorktown, Virginia.
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A revolution in France toppled the monarchy in the name of liberty and equality.
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