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The French Indian war began 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain access to the territories of the North America
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Britain set a tax that requires a stamp act on all public documents like newspaper and legal documents. The colonists did not like the tax placed on them.
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Boston colonists were shot by British troops
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Angry with the new tax placed on tea, some Boston colonist dumped crates of tea into the Boston Harbor
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Representatives from the colonies get together to unite and oppose against British taxes
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The Revolutionary war started and Paul Revere makes his famous ride to warn the colonists that the British are coming
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The Continental Congress agrees to Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence
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September- October
British general John Burgoyne Surrenders his army to the Americans after suffering defeat at the battles of saratoga -
America chooses its flag- The Continental Congress Adopts the Stars and Stripes flag sewn by Betsy Roses
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France recognized the US with the treaty of Alliance
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Defined the official government of the United States
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The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War. The British General Cornwalls surrender at Yorktown was the unofficial end to the war
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Treaty that officially ended the war
