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Boston massacure
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams. This happened in Boston, Massachusetts. -
Boston tea party
The Boston tea party was an american political mercantile protest where the sons of liberty threw 92,000 pounds of British tea into the harbor. This happened at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. -
first continental congress
This was when Patrick Henry, George Washington, John and Samuel Adams, John Jay, and John Dickinson meat to discuss the what to do about the British actions. They meat in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
The battles of Lexington + concord
The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge. -
Second continental congress
A meeting of all the delegates from the first the First Continental congress plus Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and john Hancock. They united in the American revolutionary war. -
Thomas Paine (common sense)
Thomas Paine wrote and published common sense. It was advocating Independence from great Britten to people in the thirteen colonies. He wrote it in Philadelphia. -
Declaration of independence sighed
The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence occurred primarily on August 2, 1776 at the Pennsylvania State House, Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. John Hancock was the first and largest signature along with 55 others. -
Battle of trenton
The Battle of Trenton was a small but pivotal American Revolutionary War battle that took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. -
Washington Winter at valley forge
winters at valley forge lasted from December 19, 1777 through June 19, 1778. -
France + America From an alliance
The Franco-American alliance was the 1778 alliance between the Kingdom of France and the United States during the American Revolutionary War. Formalized in the 1778 Treaty of Alliance, it was a military pact in which the French provided many supplies for the Americans. -
Treaty of Paris
The treaty of Paris was signed on December 3, 1783. It officially ended the revolutionary war.