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The Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Year's War on this day. The British emerged victorious.
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The Boston Massacre was an incident between the British soldiers and the men of Boston in which several Bostonians were killed. No one really knows who started the conflict. Like most other things during this time period, the "massacre" was another event leading up to the American Revolution.
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The Intolerable Acts were meant to punish the Bostonians for the Boston Tea Party, when the citizens of Boston rebelled against the tax on tea. Most importantly, the Intolerable Acts closed the Boston Port until Boston paid for the tea that they dumped in the harbor.
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The First Continental Congress met at Carpenter's Hall. Every colony except Georgia sent representatives. The representatives at the Congress wrote the King of England a redress of grievances, to which the King did not respond.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were fought before the war technically began. "The shot heard 'round the world" refers to the shots Paul Revere fired at the Battles of Lexigton and Concord to warn the people that the British were coming.
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The Battle of Bunker Hill, when the British captured Bunker Hill, was a huge morale booster for the colonists. While the British technically won the battle, they suffered heavy losses.
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Common Sense waas published by Thomas Paine to show the American colonists that it was neccessary and inevitable break away from Britain.
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The Battle of Saratoga is also known as the turning point of the war, because it was a huge American victory.
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The Articles of Confederation was the states' first attempt at a constitution. It was meant to bring some form of rule to the states but was extremely flawed in its lack of a strong central government.
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At the Philadelphia Convention, leaders from every state spent the summer of 1787 discussing the problems with the Articles of Confederation. By the end of the convention, the United States Constitution had been written.
