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-the british taxed almost anything sweet
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- soldiers had to have a warrent to search places
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-few deaths/injuries
-paul revere painted a descripion of what happened -
-taxes on tea
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-boston sons of liberty dumped tea into the boston harbor
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-wanted britain to repeal intolerable acts -
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-the british attacked minute men first shot of the revoltion
-americans fled
-british contuied to concord -
-britsh lost against a thousand minute men
-after the battle at lexington
-british retreated -
-continental army -washington appointed general
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-patroits lost bunker to brtish
-do not shoot until you see the whites of their eyes
-low on gunpowder british lost lots of lives -
-a smybol of hope for the people -
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-thomas payne told the people its stupid to be ruled by someone half a world away
-fired people up for revolution
-brought commonsense to the eyes to the people -
-written by thomas jefferson
-able to adapt
-made to control power to keep govrnment under the power of the people -
-british took control of new york for the rest of the war -washington escaped just in time
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-washigton lead his troops across the delaware river
-no lives lost
-catured trenton -
-cornwallis fought the americans before the battle of yorktown
-washigton won
-cornwallis retreated -
-turning point in the war
-french and spainish allias of america
-british realized the americans want to really fight -
-to 1778 -more men died of hypothermia
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-last battle of the war
-cornwallis surrenderd
-traped corinwallis on the coast with french ships in the harbor and washingtons troops on land -
-british had to acknowladge that america was a free country
-froced to sign it
-cornwallis signed it for all of britain