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The French and Indian War started in 1754 and ended in 1763 with the Treaty of Paris. The French and Indian War started over whether the Upper Ohio River Valley was a part of the British Empire. The war provided Great Britain with enormous territorial gains in North America but ended up with a lot of dept.
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The Stamp Act made the colonists pay a tax represented by stamps. All types of paper documents and playing cards it was made by the British to make back some of their money from the war. -
The Boston Massacre was a street fight on March 5 1770 between a mob of citizens throwing snowballs rocks and sticks at a group of 9 armed soldiers. The soldiers injured 8 civilians from the mob of three or four hundred and killed 3 men and 2 of them mortally. -
On July 4 1776 the Decrelation Of Independence was signed off by Thomas Jefferson and a bunch of other men. The purpose of the Decrelation Of Independence was to explain colonists have the right to revolution -
In the winter of 1777 General George Washington led his starving and very cold group of around 12000 soldiers and 400 women and children into what is now Valley Forge and started building a city. It became the 4th largest city in the colonels with 1500 log huts and 2 miles of fortifications. -
On September 28 1781 the Battle of Yorktown started between Washingtons forces and Lord Charles Cornwallis in Virginia. The war went on for about a month it ended October 19 1781 and the British surrendered. -
The Treaty of Paris was signed on September 3, 1783, between Britain and the American colonies and it ended the American Revolution. America was finally recognized as an independent nation it was signed in Paris.