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it is unclear of the origin of the founding for the sons of liberty but History has a reference of it possibly being from port cities like Boston and New York. They also organized and carried out the Boston Tea Party.
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The Townshend Act were to help pay the expenses used in governing the original American colonies. the taxes were initiated on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. The American colonies saw the act as abusive power.
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The Boston massacre is how five colonist lost their lives along with several others surviving with near lethal injuries. The British sentry shot down five colonist after being barraged with snowballs and rocks by the group of colonist that were attacking.
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The British government was in debt and was going to tax the US to get rid of said debt. The Townshend act leads into the Boston Tea party by only a couple of years. The Boston tea party all ended when a group of colonist disguised as native Americans boarded 3 ships via the Boston Harbor and threw just a little over 340 chest over-board. -
British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia. This ragtag army defeats 700 British soldiers and the surprise victory bolsters their confidence for the war ahead. these battles marked the start of the American War of Independence
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The American patriots were defeated at the Battle of Bunker Hill, but they proved they could hold their own against the British Army. the patriots retreated and returned to their lines outside the perimeter of Boston after the US ran out of ammunition and surrendered.
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On January 10, 1776, the publication of Thomas Paine's Common Sense became the first viral mass communications event in America. Paine collected various moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for the egalitarian government.
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The declaration of independence was adopted on 7/4/1776, which would later become the holiday us Americans are most accustomed too, The "4TH of July". This signature signified the 13 colonies of their independence from Great Britain. The Declaration of Independence was signed by 56 delegates from the Second Continental Congress on August 2 but was published and adopted on July fourth. -
The Battle of Trenton started in the morning of Dec/26/1776 in Trenton, New Jersey. the continental army had previously lost several defeats in New York and had been forced to retreat, going through New Jersey to Pennsylvania. the battle ended because Washingtons forces had overpowered the hessians, and their leader was mortally wounded, leaving his regime confused and not knowing what to do and they retreated and were later forced to surrendered.
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more than 2000 British and Loyalist troops under Lt. General Lord Cornwallis met and defeated over 4,000 American troops commanded by the “Hero of Saratoga,” General Horatio Gates.
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The battle of Yorktown took 22 days and around a56 British soldiers lost their lives, with the US losing 28 soldiers, and the French allies losing 60. Washington's forces defeated Lord Charles Cornwallis' army dug in at Yorktown. Victory at Yorktown led directly to the peace negotiations that ended the war in 1783 and ended with America's independence. -
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States, officially ending the War of American Independence.
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A convention of delegates from all the states except Rhode Island met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in May of 1787. Known as the Constitutional Convention, at this meeting it was decided that the best solution to the young country's problems was to set aside the Articles of Confederation and write a new constitution.
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It determined that three out of every five slaves were counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation.
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The Connecticut Compromise, also known as the Sherman Compromise, was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 which defined the legislative structure and representation each state would have under the United States Constitution.