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This was the first step in trying to form a centralized government even though the plan was never carried out.
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A tax on documents put on the colonists by the British rulers.
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A group of British soldiers shot into a crowd of colonists, killing five and wounding others.
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A group of fed up colonists boarded British ships carrying tea and threw it overboard.
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After the Boston Tea Party the British tried to regain rule over the colonists by making some "laws"
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In response to the Intolerable Acts the colonists formed the First Continental Congress as a sign of resistance.
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The Second Continental Congress started the writing of the constitution.
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The first military engagements in the war against the British rule.
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Fed up with British rule, the colonists begin fighting back against them in the start of what we call the American Revolution.
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In July of 1776 the Declaration of Independence was approved by Congress and was signed in August.
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The end of the revolution came with the signing of a peace treaty that made Americas independence official.