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St. Augustine founded in Florida by the Spanish. It is the oldest continually populated settlement in the U.S.
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Jamestown, the first successful English colony, founded in what will become Virginia.
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The Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock.
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War fought in North America between the British and French. Ended with England gaining all of the remaining French territory in North America
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Series of taxes placed on essential imported goods in the colonies.
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British soldiers in Boston fired on a crowd of civilians, killing 5.
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A group of mean boarded a British merchant ship and threw its cargo of tea into the harbor.
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First battles of the Revolutionary War. British troops sent to arrest Patriot leaders. Unknown who fired first shot.
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King George III officially declared that the colonies were in rebellion.
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the Colonies declared themselves an independent nation forming the United States of America.