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The Stamp Act was a tax on paper documents such as legal documents, licenses, newspapers, pamphlets, and even playing cards.
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The Townshend Acts placed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
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The Tea Act of 1773 allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists.
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First military engagments of the American Revolutionary War. British found out colonists were keeping guns in Concord but when the British got their there was none.
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British advanced on the colonist 3 times. The British won because eventually the colonists ran out of ammo.
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The Declaration of Independance formally announced the colonies' break from Great Britain.
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The Battle of Trenton was an important Patriot victory. The Patriots defeated the Hessians.
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General George Washington's forces defeated the British outside of Princeton.
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The Battle of Saratoga in New York was the turning point in the war.
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The winter of 1777 was a terrible winter for Washington and his men he had come with about 12,000 and some 2,000 died of disease and malnutrtion.
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Last major battle of the Revolutionary War.
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In the Treaty of Paris the British recognized the independance of the United States.
