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Sugar Act
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Stamp Act
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Declaratory Act
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Townshend Acts
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Tea Act
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Intolerable Act
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Quartering Act
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Continental Congress meets
-All the colonies but Georgia have representatives
-voted to send a "statement of grievances"
-Voted to Boycott all British Trade
-Patrick Henry-- VA rep. urged colonists to unite against Britain -
1'000s of Redcoats in Boston
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Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Paul Revere rides warn the Sons Of Liberty in Lexington and Concord that the "British are coming..The British are coming." -
Battles of Lexington & Concord
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Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
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Declaring Independence
Print
Set up Post Office
Created Continental army led by George Washington
Sent Olive Branch asking King to protect their rights
King hires 30,000 Hessians Soldiers in response -
Battle of Bunker Hills
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Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental troops
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Common Sense
Pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots
“Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, ‘TIS TIME TO PART” - Thomas Paine, Common sense -
British Surrender Boston
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Second Continental Congress Meet Again
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Second Continental Congress
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Declaring Independence Signed
