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Britain sets a tax that requires a stamp on all public documents like newspapers or legal documents. The colonists did not like having this tax placed on them. This led to unrest in the colonies and the Stamp Act Congress -
Boston colonists are shot by British troops. -
Angry with a new tax on tea, some Boston colonists calling themselves the Sons of Liberty board British ships and dump crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. -
Representatives from the colonies get together to unite and oppose British taxes. -
Major battle where William Prescott told the American troops "don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes". -
he Revolutionary War starts and Paul Revere makes his famous ride to warn the colonists that the "British are coming"
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The actual fighting starts with the first "shot heard around the world". The Americans win as the British retreat. -
The Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British. -
The Continental Congress agrees to Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.
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George Washington and his troops cross the Delaware River on Christmas night and surprise the enemy. -
The Continental Congress adopts the "Stars and Stripes" Flag sewn by Betsy Ross. -
British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army to the Americans after suffering defeat at the Battles of Saratoga. -
The Continental army under George Washington spends the winter training at Valley Forge. -
The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War. British General Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown was the unofficial end to the war. -
Treaty that officially ended the war.