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two religious movemen and unreligius helped the colonies became like them selves not like england
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than Allen and Benedict Arnold lead a successful attack on Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York, while the Second Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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the war erupted into the seven Years' War it was world wide went on for nine years it was with franch and great britain and the franch lost
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was documents that ended the franch and indian war
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the British issued a proclamation intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands
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the british were trying to sto the smuggling of sugar by increaseing funds
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was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government.
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series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies
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when British soldiers opened fire on colonists heckling a British sentry.
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In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor
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in U.S. colonial history, four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament in retaliation for acts of colonial defiance, together with the Quebec Act establishing a new administration for the territory ceded to Britain after t the war
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During the American Revolution, Great Britain's 13 American colonies rose up in insurrection and won their independence.
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British troops and American colonists faced off in initial skirmishes near the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord, marking the beginning of the American Revolution
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On this day in 1776, writer Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet "Common Sense," setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence
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The Declaration of Independence announced the intention of the 13 American colonies to separate from Great Britain.
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General George Washington’s victories at Trenton and Princeton helped turn the tide of the American Revolutio
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Fought eighteen days apart in the fall of 1777, the two Battles of Saratoga were a turning point in the American Revolution.
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served two terms as the first U.S. president, from 1789 to 1797.