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Great Britain wins the French and Indian War.
The proclamation of 1763 closes the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains to settlers! -
The Stamp Act is passed to raise taxes from the colonists.
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The Currency Act forbids the American colonists from creating their own money.
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The Stamp Act is passed to collect taxes on paper goods.
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The Quartering Act requires the colonists to provide food and shelter for British troops!
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Organized resistance forces repeal of the Stamp Act.
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The Townshend Acts are passed to tax glass, tea, paper, and other products.
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The Boston Massacre inflames tensions in the colonists.
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American boycotts and resistance to Townshend Acts forces repeal of all but the tea tax.
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Sam Adams organizes the Committees of Correspondence too coordinate anti-British actions in the colonists!
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The Sons of Liberty dump the tea off a British ship at the Boston Tea Party.
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The Tea Act is passed giving British merchants a monopoly on the sale of the tea to the colonists.
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The Intolerable Acts are passed to punish Boston for the BostonTea Party.
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The First Continental Congress meets to discuss the growing crisis.
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The Battle of Lexington and Concord signal th beginning of the war.
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The Battle of Bunker Hill is fought!
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The Second Continental Congress meets and Washington is named commander in chief of the Continental Army.
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Thomas Paine publishes “Common Sense”, rallying Americans to the cause of revolution.
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The British win the battle of Long Island and occupy New York City.
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The Declaration of Independence is declared on July 4.
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Washington crosses the Delaware and defeats the British at Trenton.
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Washington wins the battle of Princeton.
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Americans win a major battle of Saratoga.
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Washington Forces spend the winter at Valley Forge.
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The Articles of Confederation re adopted by the Continental Congress.
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The French becomes allies, sending men and munitions.
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George Rogers Clark captures Stony Point of the Americans.
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Mad Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point for the Americans.
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John Paul Jones defeats the British ships Serapis.
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Americans win a major battle at King’s Mountain, South Carolina!
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American traitor Benedict Arnold escapes before he can hand over West Point to the British.
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British General Cornwallis is surrounded by American and French troops and bottled up at Yorktown by French ships. His surrender effectively ends the war!
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The Final Peace treaty grants American colonies their independence from Great Britain.