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Stamp act of 1765
was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America. -
Sons of liberty
The Sons of Liberty was a loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists. -
Boston massacre
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. -
Boston tea party
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts. -
battle of bunker hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought in the Siege of Boston in the first stage of the American Revolutionary War. -
battle of Yorktown
the surrender at Yorktown, or the German battle because of the presence of Germans in all three armies. -
Treaty of Paris Signed
This treaty, signed on September 3, 1783, between the American colonies and Great Britain, ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation. -
The Great compromise
provided a dual system of congressional representation. In the House of Representatives each state would be assigned a number of seats in proportion to its population.
