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The British put a tax on sugar and coffee for the colonists.
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Britain put a tax on paper items, like newspapers and playing cards.
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Colonist rebels threw rocks and snowballs at the British, so British soldiers opened fire, killing five people.
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Colonists protesting the Tea Act threw British tea into Boston harbor.
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Tensions between colonists and the British erupted into war.
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The Second Continental Congress met and voted to declare independence from Britain.
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American troops defeated the British at Saratoga.
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Washington and his troops force the British to surrender at Yorktown.
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Colonial representatives met in order to redraft the Articles of Confederation.
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The colonial representatives voted unanimously for the Constitution, making it the supreme law of the land.
