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The Stamp Act was a tax imposed by the British Parliament on the American colonies in 1765
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The Townshend Acts were a series of taxes imposed by the British Parliament on the American colonies in the 1760s
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The Boston Massacre was a violent confrontation between British soldiers and American colonists in Boston on March 5, 1770
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The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts.
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a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen American colonies that convened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in September 1774 to discuss and protest growing British oppression.
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The Olive Branch Petition was a last attempt to avoid war between the British government and the American colonies.
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The Second Continental Congress was a gathering of delegates from the thirteen American colonies that convened in Philadelphia in 1775, following the Battles of Lexington and Concord, to coordinate the American Revolutionary War effort.
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The first shots of the American Revolutionary War were fired at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts on April 19, 1775
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The Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777. This document served as the United States' first constitution.
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The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. The document was drafted by Thomas Jefferson
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the British surrendered at Yorktown in 1781 because they were cut off from supplies, reinforcements, and retreat, and were outnumbered by the American and French forces
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The Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783, ending the War of the American Revolution.