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Europeans in the west waking up and seeing things for how they really are
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A war that gave Great Britain huge amounts of territorial ground in North America. The war ended with the Treaty of Paris.
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British taxing all legal and official. The money was going to be used to fund the army. -
To help pay expenses in the American colonies, Parliament passed the act which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of Bostonians killing five of them -
To protest the British Parliaments tax on tea. The demonstrators boarded the ship and threw chest of tea over board. -
4 laws passed By the British Parliament to punish the Massachusetts colony for the Boston Tea Party. -
The Congress first met in Philadelphia with delegates from each of the 13 colonies except Georgia. -
Congress made George Washington the commander of the Continental Army. -
The American Patriots were defeated but showed they can hold their own. -
The colonies declaring their independence from the British -
Huge victory for the British -
The Continental Army and their French allies defeat the British.
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Ended the War of the American Revolution. -
created a stronger central government and a Congress that can tax.