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The dewit house was built for George Washington while he was a general in the Revolutionary war and its still standing to this day.
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When Paris signed their treaty the French and Indian war ended in a anti-climatic way. The war had raged on for 9 long years, as a result from the war France took a big hit.
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The stamp act was made to increase revenue to help defend the British army that was constantly growing, the stamps causes outrage and riots.
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The Townshend act was a bunch of laws passed consecutively by the British government on American colonies. This act took away some freedoms from colonist.
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On June 17, 1775 in the beginning of the revolutionary war the British defeated the Americans, in the battle of Bunker Hill. This battle was one of many in the Revolutionary war, but this one was one of the bloodiest and had the most deaths.
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In the late 1775 the colonial battle with the British looked like a civil war from the a civilians eye, not a war aiming to give independence to certain nations. When Thomas Paine published his famous book Common sense it persuaded the people to knowing that it was a real war.
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After the congress gave a recommendation that certain states and colonies should have their own government, the Declaration of Independence was adopted the very next day. Written by Thomas Jefferson.
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The British captured and hanged Nathan Hale, he was an American captain.
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The articles of confederation were created by the second continental congress Its purpose to have a plan for the future
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The battle put the continental army against George Washington it also was one of the first retreat's of the American army
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the Baylor massacre was a surprise attack by the British on the 3rd on the Light dragons the 3rd regiment of the American army
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John Andre was captured in the act of trying to commit treason. He was sentenced to death by john Washington
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The American army trapped a big part of the British army on the peninsula Yorktown