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These acts declared that only English ships were allowed to bring goods into England.
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The French and Indian War ends. The British had fought both the French and the Indians, and had won, earning he right to name the war.
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A tax on all paper documents in the colonies. This was Britain’s attempt at getting themselves out of the debt they’d acquired from the Seven Years’ War.
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A fight broke out in a town square between colonists and British soldiers, resulting in five deaths.
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The colonists throw tons of tea into the Boston Harbor to protest unfair taxes.
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This was an act of Parliament, which later led to the Boston Tea Party.
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These acts passed by Great Britain angered the colonists, which led into the Boston Tea Party, and later, the Revolutionary War.
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Delegates from every colony, sans Georgia, met in Philadelphia to discuss a solution to the Intolerable Acts.
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The first battles of the revolutionary war.
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Following the First, the delegates met yet again. Georgia was without a representative for a second time. Although a delegate was sent from a church in Georgia, he was not an official delegate for the colony.
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The U.S. officially declared their independence from Britain.
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A victory for the Continental Army, and a turning point in the Revolutionary War.
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George Washington and his troops endured a difficult winter during the war.
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The British surrendered, ending the Revolutionary War.
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The U.S. Constitution was signed during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
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The U.S. officially ratified their constitution.