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Great Britain tries to reverse the policy of Salutary Neglect to pay for war debts, tightening their control, engaging the Navigation Acts and other laws and new taxes on goods
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King George III issued a proclamation that forbided colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. He hoped to placate Native Americans who had sided against him during the recently concluded Seven Years’of War.
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The boston massacre took place. The killing of 5 colonists by British Regulars. Caused tension in American colonies.
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http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/teaparty.htm Victory for the Indian and French war was costly for the British...
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On April 18, 1775, British General Thomas Gage sent 700 soldiers to destroy guns the colonists had stored in the town of Concord.
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http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/thomas-paine-publishes-common-sense most colonists considered themselves aggrieved Britons.
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Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams all wrote the Declaration. It had been signed by Congress on July 4, 1776.
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George Washington leads troops out in the harsh winter in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
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Virginia, victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by George Washington and French Army troops led by Comte de Rochambeau.
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The Treaty of Paris of 1783, between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence.
