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  Columbus arrived on american land.
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  The time that the colonist began to rebel agaignst British.
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  The war fought between the Frnch & the British for control of North America.
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  The king forbade dolonist from moving west of the Appalachain Mountains with this new law.
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  AN act passed in 1764 that put a new tax on molasses.
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  a 1765 law that placed new duties on legal documents and taxed newspapers, almanacs, playing cards, and dice
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  a 1770 incident in which five colonists were killed by British troops.
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  a 1773 protest in which colonists dressed as Indians dumped tea into Boston Harbor
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  in 1775, the conflicts between Massachusetts colonists and British soldiers that started the Revolutionary War
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  a 1776 document stating that the 13 English colonies were a free and independent nation.
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  a 1776 battle in New York in which more than 1,400 Americans were killed, wounded, or captured
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  George Washington crosses the Delaware river and leads a suprise attack against the Hessians in Trenton New Jersey.
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  a 1777 battle that was the first decisive American victory in the Revolution
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  the Pennsylvania site of Washington's Continental Army encampment during the winter of 1777–1778
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  A battle that which even women took part in.
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  the 1781 American victory in Virginia that forced the British to surrender