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Parliament passed the sugar act, taxing sugar and coffee.
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Taxed any paper product: news papers, playing cards etc.
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British soldiers killed 5 men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks at them.
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Some colonists hurled a cargo of British Tea into the harbor to protest taxes on Tea.
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Tensions between the colonists and British finally erupted into war. This war became known as the American Revolution. The continental congress met again to form an army and named George Washington as its commander.
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The second continental congress met and voted to to declare independence from Britain. Thomas Jefferson was the main author.
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This was the turning point in The Revolutionary War.
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The British general surrendered his troops. General brought 8,000 troops to Yorktown.
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Delegates from five states called for a convention to discuss posible improvements to the Articles of Confederation.
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It was adopted and signed in September of 1787.
