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The French and Indian war was 7 year battle that was carried out by Austria, England, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Sweden. The English and the French battled for colonial domination in North America. -
The Stamp act was something passed by Britain that was used to tax legal documents, newspapers, and even playing cards -
British troops land in Boston to enforce the Townshend duties and clamp down on local radicals. -
Committees of Correspondence are made throughout the colonies to coordinate American response to British colonial policy. -
Britain passes the intolerable act. Britain closes the port of Boston and set British troops to be housed in taverns and vacant buildings. -
The British governor, Lord Dunmore, offers freedom to any slaves that are Rebellious Americans freedom that are able to fight for Britain. -
The first shots of the Revolutionary War are fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. -
Colonial soldiers that had no experience whatsoever fought and held off British veterans for 2 hours at breed’s hill. -
British loyalists that sided with the British even tho they were apart of the colonies have been defeated by the patriot army. -
An invasion by the British force mounts an all day attack on a patriot force on Sullivan’s Island, frustrated British armies couldn’t get around the trick island of Charleston and which caused them to fail at there attempt.
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The declaration was made and adopted by the second Continental Congress. The fight continues though but nationalism grows slowly over the years