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A war fought for land, fought by the French, British, and Native Americans.
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A tax on glucose (sugar).
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The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies
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The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed five people while under attack by a mob.
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A tax on importing and exporting tea.
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In retaliation to the Tea Act, a group of rebellious colonists dressed up as Native Americans threw crate several of Tea into the ocean/harbor.
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Intolerable Acts. Also known as the Coercive Acts; a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. For example, one of the laws closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea that they had destroyed.
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The First Continental Congress, which was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes.
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Shot heard around the world.
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The deceleration of independence from Britain.
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His surrender to American forces at the Battle of Saratoga marked a turning point in the Revolutionary War. The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War.
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General George Washington moved the Continental Army to their winter quarters at Valley Forge. ... By the time the army marched into Valley Forge on December 19, they were suffering not only from cold, hunger, and fatigue, but from low morale in the wake of the disastrous Philadelphia Campaign.
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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.
