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events leading up to the Revolutionary war
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A Proclomation set forth by King George III that forbade settlers (colonists) from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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An Act that imposed a direct tax on paper items (marriage lisences , magazines, newspapers etc.) that colonists had to pay to Great Britian in British currency so it couldn't be colonial paper money.
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The Townshend Taxes were a series of texes 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. These taxes were upon specific items such as paint lead, paper and shipping items. This lead to the Boston Massacre.
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Violent outbreak between a Bostionian mob and eight British Redcoats. This outbreak started with some of the Mob members taunting and throwing stuff at the British soldiers and them the soldiers retaliated and killed a mob member. Later the soldiers never got put to justice.
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A political prtest by the Sons of Liberty in which they dressed up as Mohawk Indians and threw tea from British ships into the harbor
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A series of impunitive acts set upon the colonists of the time restricting many things and stripping Massachusetts of its self government and mnay right as response to the Boston Tea Party. This lead to outrage and to the foundation of the First Continental Congress.
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The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies (not including Georgia) that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This congregation was in response to the Intolerable acts and it seeked to gain independence
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First battle of the Revolutionary War in which the British tried to steal supplies but were met by the Colonial malitia, This battle was known for the first shot which was known as "shot hear round the world" .
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Events in during the Revolutionary War
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies that started meeting on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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This was knwon as the Bloodiest battle in the war 4000 colonist were dead or wounded while only 1000 british got wounded or killed. This was also the battle where the famous quote "don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes." came from.
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An extremely popular pamphlet written for the common people that shed light on the fact that colonists should be free.
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The Declaration was read to the public and colonial independence was declaired
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Widley considered the turning point of the war, colonists won impressivley and it caused the French to be impressed and join the war with the American colonists.
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Battle that lead to the end of the war, also the battle in which the French blocked the British with their Navy.
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A treaty signed between the French and British. It gave colonists rights to the land streatching from the Appalachian Mountains to Mississippi.
