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Britain sets a tax that requires a stamp on all public documents like newspapers or legal documents.
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5 Boston colonists are shot by British troops.
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Angry with a new tax on tea, some Boston colonists calling themselves the Sons of Liberty board British ships and dump crates of tea into the Boston Harbor.
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Representatives from the colonies get together to unite and oppose British taxes.
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The Revolutionary War starts and Paul Revere makes his famous ride to warn the colonists that the "British are coming".
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The actual fighting starts with the first "shot heard around the world". The Americans win as the British retreat.
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The Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British.
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Major battle where William Prescott told the American troops "don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes".
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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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Representatives from the colonies get together to unite and oppose British taxes.
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France recognized the United States as an independent country with the Treaty of Alliance.
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Defined the official government of the United States.
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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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The Continental army under George Washington spends the winter training at Valley Forge.
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Treaty that officially ended the war.
