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A war between the French and British for territory in North America
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A tax on molasses that was brought into the colonies to minimize smuggling
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A law that stated any printed paper goods including legal documents were to be taxed
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A female association to who fought for liberty during the American Revolution
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A tax on imported goods including tea
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A dispute that led to a few solders killing 5 Boston Citizens
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The sons of liberty sneaked into the East India Company ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor
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Representatives met up to figure out how to respond to the Coercive acts
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The goal was to exert control in the colonies but the Intolerable acts had the opposite effect
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A battle between around 700 British redcoats and the American minutemen within the towns of Lexington and Concord
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Two thousand redcoats marched up Bunker hill demonstrating to the British they wouldn't be easily defeated
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One last shot at peace between Britain and the colonies
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A book wrote by Thomas Paine arguing democracy and independence --convinced many people to support independence
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A document that declared the american colonies free and independent states
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An encampment for the Continental Army where disease killed nearly 2,000 people
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The new national constitution, providing functions of the government system in the United States
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The battle that ended british rule in the colonies
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A treaty declaring that the U.S was a free and independent nation
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A document produced to protect individual rights in European nations
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It created a boundary separating British colonies from American Indian lands west of the Appalachian Mountains