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Stamp Act -First direct British tax on American colonies for every newspaper,pamphelet, and other legal documents.
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Boston Massacre- The shooting of 5 American colonists by British troops on March 5. Do not know who engaged in the first shot between the troops and colonists.
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Boston Tea Party- Angry at a new tax on tea, american colonists dressed up as indians a dumped the tea in the Boston harbor.
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Lexington and Concord first shots in rev. war from the british at the american colonists.
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Bunker Hill first major battle;'' the whites of their eyes'', costly victory for Britian. Brition lost most of their men.
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Trenton and Princeton : GW fights winter battles to his army together. They were fighting hunger and the cold.
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Saratoga: first major American victory;10 days later, France recognizes American independence.
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British loss at Yorktown; parliment begins to call for the end to the war.
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Treaty of Paris ends the revolutionary war after the americans beat the british.