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An American silversmith, engraver, folk hero, early industrialist, Sons of Liberty member and Patriot. He is one of the people that said, "The British are coming!"
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An American Founding Father, merchant, statesman and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution.
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Benedict Arnold was a militia officer who defected to Britain in 1780. That's why you do a "Benedict Arnold" when you switch sides in the war.
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Published the Massachusetts Spy right before and during the revolution. Was a radical anti-British printer Founded the American Antiquarian society, for many reasons.
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A theater of the Seven Years' War which pitted the Colonies against the French and Native American tribes.
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George and Martha Washington get married
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The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide.
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Letters of Mrs. Adams, wife of John Adams, are important because John served on the Continental Congress from 1774 -1777.
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The American Revolution was the war that followed the colonial Declaration of Independence, where American colonists broke from their economic and legal connections with Britain. Several significant events led up to the declaration as well as the outbreak of fighting some of which included propaganda or violence. Many theories and perspectives exist on the reasons for the war, its causes, and outcomes.
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This was a confrontation in Boston which 9 British Soldiers shot several people in a crowd who were harassing them verbally and throwing things.
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An American political and mercantile protest led by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts
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Citizens that were in a militia on Samuel Adam's side.
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4th and final of the main Coercive Acts. Applied to all the colonies and allowed high ranking military officials to demand better accommodations for troops.
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A meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British Colonies (that became the US.)
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A quote from Patrick Henry, American politician and orator, at he Second Virgina Convention
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Another meeting of the delegates a month after shot had been fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts and the Congress prepared for war.
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30,000 German troops the British hired.
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French provided supplies to troops of Continental Army
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The Confederation Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris
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Drafted in secret by delegates of the Constitutional Convention. Established the government of the US.