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Paul Revere was an American silversmith engraver, early industrialist and a patriot in the American Revolution.
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an act that the British Parliament made in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.
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The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763 by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War Seven years War which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains
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The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act, was a revenue raising act passed by the British Parliament in April 1764.
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The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5 1770 between a patriot mob throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks and a squad of British soldiers
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The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. The policy ignited a “powder keg” of opposition and resentment among American colonists and was the catalyst of the boston tea party.
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The Boston Tea Party related to John Adams as the Destruction of the Tea in Boston was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston on December 16 1773.
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The Edenton Tea Party was one of the earliest organized women's political actions in United States history. On October 25, 1774, Mrs. Penelope Barker organized, at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth King.
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution.
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare, the American Revolutionary War had begun.
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The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots term for a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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The Capture of Fort Ticonderoga occurred during the American Revolutionary War on May 10, 1775 when a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold overcame a small British garrison at the fort and looted the personal belongings of the garrison.
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The Battle of Bunker Hill was a battle fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.
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The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought near Wilmington in present-day Pender County, North Carolina on February 27, 1776.
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The Halifax Resolves is the name later given to a resolution adopted by the Fourth Provincial Congress of the Province of North Carolina on April 12, 1776. The resolution was a forerunner of the United States Declaration of Independence.
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The Declaration of Independence is defined as the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America The acts are named after Charles Townshend the Chancellor of the Exchequer who proposed the program.
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Valley Forge is a valley in eastern Pennsylvania that served as quarters for the American army in one winter 1777 ,to,1778 of the Revolutionary War.
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The Battle of Kings Mountain was a decisive victory in South Carolina for the Patriot militia over the Loyalist militia in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War.
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The Battle of Guilford Court House was a battle fought on March 15, 1781, at a site which is now in Greensboro, the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, during the American Revolutionary War
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The Siege of Yorktown better known as the Battle of Yorktown the Surrender at Yorktown or the German Battle ending on October 19 1781 at Yorktown Virginia.
