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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge.
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Thomas Paine wrote the Common Sense pamphlet in 1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
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The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.
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Massachusetts adopted their first draft of the constitution in a convention and it was than changed by the popular vote
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The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years War between Great Britain and France. France gave up all its territories in mainland North America ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there.