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Parliament passed the Sugar Act, which taxed sugar and coffee.
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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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Boston soldiers opened fire on a crowd that was pelting them with snowballs and rocks.
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Colonist hurled a large cargo of British tea into the harbor, because of taxation.
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The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy.
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Second Continental Congress voted to declare independance from Britain
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The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British during the Revolutionary War.
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The British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his troops in Yorktown, Virginia. General Cornwallis brought 8,000 British troops to Yorktown. They expected help from British ships sent from New York. The British ships never arrived.
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The Annapolis Convention, delegates from five states called for a Constitutional Convention in order to discuss possible improvements to the Articles of Confederation.
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The U.S. Constitution was adopted and signed in September 1787, but signing wasn't enough. It had to be ratified by nine of the 13 states before it became binding.
