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The Treat of Paris in 1763 divided the New World known as America into parts for Great Britian, Spain, and France.
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The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament, It requiered American Colonists to pay taxes on paper products.
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The Townshend Act put a tax on lead, tea, glass, paint, and paper and put political restrictions on colonies.
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The Boston Massacre, involving many drunk colonists and several British soldiers, left us with five male colonisted killed and six more injured by the soldiers
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The Tea Act was designed to pull the East India Conmany out of bankruptcy. It was a monopoly on tea sales.
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Colonists, dressed up as Naitive Americans and dumped tons of tea into the Boston Harbour. It was in revolt of the Tea Act.
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The Intolerable Acts included the Qubec Act, Quartering Act, Administration of Justice Act, Boston Port Act, and the Massachusetts Government Act. They were called the 'Intolerable Acts' because they were intolerable and awful for the colonists.
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The First Continental Congress met in the Carpenter's Hall in Philoidelphia with representaltives from every colony except for Georgia, to discuss their response to the Coersive Acts.
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In Edenton, NC a group of women got together in the first political actions organized by women, to write a petition that they would no longer buy British tea or cloth.
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Paul Revere, although he didn't run his horse, alone and fast through the streets, yelling 'The British are coming! The British are coming!', did indeed go around with a group of other men from house to house telling them that the redcoats were coming on his midnight ride.
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The Battle of Lexington and Concord was the first major military engagement of the Revolutionary War.
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The Siege of Boston lasted for 11 months as American colonists effictively held British troops in Boston. It was a major turning point in the war for America.
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philidelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American colonies began.
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The Mecklenburg Resolves were a list of statements adopted at Chorlotte, in Mecklenburg County, drafted in the month following the fight at Lexington and Concord.
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George Washington was appointed the Major General and Commander-In-Cheif of the Continental Army, which was formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the Colonies that became the USA.
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The Continental Congress elected George Washington as Comander in Cheif of the Coninental Army.
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The Battle of Bunker Hill
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Under Gage's control, British soldiers seized the Charlestown Penninsula at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
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The Olive Branch Petition was formed by the Second Continental Congress.
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Dunmore's proclammation offered freedom to any slave who would leave their owner to serve the crown - but only if they would defend his cause.
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It was the first official action in the American Colonies calling for independance from Great Britian.
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It was adopted by the Continental Congress, and had been written by Thomas Jefferson and signed by 56 delegates.
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In Trenton, New Jersey, the Americans faced the British and Hessian Troops. It was a victory for George Washington and his American troops.
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It was the regular British Hessians and Brunswickers against American Colonists, Canadians, and Naitive Americans. The Americans withdrew, leaving it in Britian's power.
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Also the 'Siege of Charlestown', it was a Britsh ship that opened fire on the American city of Charleston. Eight more British ships came, and they advanced toward the American forces at Fort Moultrie. The Americans suffered one of their worst defeats.
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In South Carolina, between the Loyalist and Patriot Malitias. The Loyalist commander was fatally shot and the Patriot Militia had a decisive victory.
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The Coninental Army fought the British Army in Cowpens, SC. The Continental Army, led by George Washington, was victorious.
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It was the Americans and the French against the British, with the Americans and the French winning. It was in Virginia.
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The final Treaty of Paris was signed then, but the first was signed in 1782 and the Continental Congress didn't ratify it until 1784.
