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Britain sets a tax that requires a stamp on all public documents like newspapers or legal documents. The colonists did not like having this tax placed on them. This led to unrest in the colonies and the Stamp Act Congress
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
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The actual fighting stars with the shot heard around the world.
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the green mountain boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold
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the British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts
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The Continental Congress agrees to Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.
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George Washington and his troops cross the Delaware River on Christmas night and surprise the enemy.
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The Continental Congress adopts the "Stars and Stripes" Flag sewn by Betsy Ross.
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British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army to the Americans after suffering defeat at the Battles of Saratoga.
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The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War. British General Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown was the unofficial end to the war.
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Treaty that officially ended the war.
