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Ends French and Indian War
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Tax on everything paper
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Parliament puts duties on imported goods, teas, paper, glass, and paints go up
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A drunken mob harasses British soldiers. Shot accidentally fires 3 killed, 2 fatally injured, and 6 injured. British soldiers get tried for murder and have to go back to England.
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Colonists board 3 English ships dressed as Indians. Broke open the crates and dumped out 45tons of tea.
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Was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party.
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The battle is named after the adjacent Bunker Hill, which was peripherally involved in the battle and was the original objective of both colonial and British troops, and is occasionally referred to as the "Battle of Breed's Hill."
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In a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies that the Congress represented, and Great Britain.
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Was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.
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A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776.
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Is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
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The hazardous crossing in adverse weather made it possible for Washington to lead the main body of the Continental Army against Hessian soldiers garrisoned at Trenton.
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Marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.
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Was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops.