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The King put taxes on four items: cloth, tea, paper, and glass.
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British soliders killed 5 civilians.
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Paul Revere and two other men rode through Concord, Massachusetts warning the colonists that the British were coming to seize their weapons.
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There shots fired on this date starting the American Revolution
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Thomas Paine wrote the Common Sense trying to get the colonists to raly together to fight against the King.
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The Declaration of Indpendence is adopted.
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These laws formed a weak central government with no main leader or President. It created a Congress, also with little power.
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These two battles were won both by the British and took over the city of Philadelphia.
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George Washington and his troops stayed in Valley Foge durin gthis harsh winter learning how to fight together as an united army.
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More than 200 settlers in Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley were attacked and killed by British soldiers and Native Americans.
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The main British army finally surrendered.
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The treaty was signed ending the American Revolution.