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The sons of liberty were a grassroot group of instigators and provocateurs in America who used a extreme form of civil disobedience. Sometimes they would also result in violence. -
In 1765 the stamp act was passed by British Parliament. It had helped pay troops stationed during the seven years war. this stamp was on almost every form of paper. -
The Townshed act initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. With the n ew taxes the colonies decided to discourage the purchase of British imports. -
British sentries guarded the Boston Customs House started shooting into a crowd of people. They killed three men and injured eight, two of them terribly. -
The first Continental Congress in the U.S. meet in Philadelphia to consider its reaction to British governments restraints on tr5ade after the Boston Tea Party. After about 7 weeks of debates they agreed to boycott of British goods within colonies as a sign of protest. -
The Second Continental Congress met inside the Independence hall beginning in May 1775. It was a month after shots were fired at Lexington and Concord Massachusetts. The congress was preparing for war. -
In the Battle of Bunker Hill American patriots were defeated. The fight confirmed that you can no longer reconciliation between England and American colonies. -
The petition was send to the King as a last attempt to prevent war from being declared. it showed loyalty to the British crown and their rights as British citizens -
Common Sense made a clear case for independence. It attacked the economic, political, and ideological obstacles to achieve it. -
After New Jersey crossed the Delaware Rive in a very bad storm. George Washington's army defeated a lot of Hessian mercenaries at Trenton. It had set the stage for another success at Princeton a week later. -
Lexington was not a serious military defeat. But it was very politically harmful for Britain. -
British victory in SC was one of the crazy defeats ever inflicted on American army. That took place in the american revolution. -
Washington's forces defeated Lord Charles Cornwallis in Yorktown Virginia. The victory at Yorktown led to peace negotiations that ended the war in 1782. -
The treaty was signed on September 3rd 1783 by American colonies and Great Britain. it had ended the American Revolution and had officially mad the U.S a independent nation. -
The 3/5 Compromise was all around states during 1787 Constitutional Conventional. It had determined that 3 out of every 5 slaves counted when determining a states total population.