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The Boston Massacre is a deadly riot that happened on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. It started as a brawl between American colonists and a British soldier but escalated quickly into a slaughter. -
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that happened on December 16, 1773, at Griffins Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, upset at Britain for imposing taxation without representation, dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. -
The First Continental Congress was a meeting between twelve of the thirteen colonies called in response to the Intolerable Acts. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord signaled the start of the American Revolutionary war on April 19, 1775. -
The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, just a few months after the start of the American Revolutionary War. -
Declaration of Independence, in U.S. history, document that was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and that announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. -
The Battle of Saratoga occurred in September and October, 1777, during the second year of the American Revolution. It included two crucial battles -
Siege of Yorktown, (September 28–October 19, 1781), joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. -
The Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783, ending the War of the American Revolution. -
I think the Battle of Lexington & Concord is the most important Event that took place in the American Revolution because it basically signaled the start of the war.