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The American Revolution timeline
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boston massacre
a street fight ocurred on march 5, 1770, between a patriot mob. several colonist were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry -
The Boston Tea Party
Boston colonist disuised as indians, threw the contects of several hundred chests of the tea into the harbor as a protest aainst british taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the east india company -
The Old North Church
American poet and ardent abolitionist named Henry Wadsworth longfellow immortalized paul reverse and the old north church in american history ans myth -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
First shots between american and british troops, on april 19, 1775. The British chose to march to concord because it was an arms depot -
Common sense
a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from great britain in the summer of 1776 -
The declaration of Independence
The formal statement written by thomas jefferson declaring the freedom of the American colonies from Great Britain -
Battle of Trenton
A small but pivotal battle during the american revolutionary war which took place on the morning of December 26, 1776. In trenton, new jersey -
Valley Forge
The milatary camp in southeastern Pennsylvania, where the American continental army spend the winter of 1777-1778 durin the American Revoulutionary War -
Treaty of Alliance
A defensive alliance between France and the United States of America, formed in the midst of the American Revolutionary War, which promised America of French military support in case of attack by British forces indefinitely into the future