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Sugar Act causing colonists to pay more taxes
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-Patriots were formed
-Sons of liberty formed
-Sam Adams leader -
Stamp Act
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-Britain maintained a sold army in the colonies
-Quartering Act -
-Mob lead by the the sons of liberty take down stamp collector house.
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-Declaratory Act
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-Tax on imported goods
-Townsend Acts -
-Boston Massacre
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-Tea Act
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-Boston Tea Party
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-Intolerable Acts
-Required Colonists to pay back for the tea -
-"Give me liberty or give me death"
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-King George rejects the "Olive Branch" and sends more troops to Boston
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-Battles of Lexington and Concord
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-2nd Congress
-George Washington elected leader. -
-Battle of Bunker Hil
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-Deceleration of Independence
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-Thomas Payne creates common sense
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-Training of the Continental army.
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-Patriots win the Battle of Saratoga
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-France joins the US in the war
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-Clinton captures 3000 patriot soldiers as he takes over Charlestown.
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-General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown.
