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This was a war between the British/Colonies and French/Indians over land in North America. The British/Colonies won and took over Canada.
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The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier.
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Britain lowered an expanded taxes on molasses.
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Taxed stamps, bills, playing cards, newspapers and wills.
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This act stated that Parliment had full authority to make laws and taxes binding on the colonies.
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Taxes on import of glass, lead, paint, paper and tea.
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A street mob challenged British troops guarding Boston's custom house and the British opened fire and killed colonists.
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Britsh out taxes on tea in the colonies.
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Patriots dressed as Indians and boarded 3 east India Company ships and dumped 342 chests of tea overboard.
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Britain passes the Intolerable Acts on this date. These were a set of laws that Britain placed on the colonies punishing them for the Boston Tea Party.
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The battle of Lexington and Concord was the beginning of the American Revolution. It started when the British were coming to attack a suppply center of the colonists.
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The American Revolution was what lead the seperation of the colonies and Britain. The colonies were being taxed without representation and it eventually lead up the this war. The colonies won and recieved their Independence.
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This battle was the bloodiest battle during the American Revolution.
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In the Olive Branch Petition they declared their loyalty to the king and asked him to repeal the Intolerable Acts.
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Common Sense is a pamphlet by Thomas Paine and was first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.
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The day the Siege of Boston ends is also know as "Evacuation Day." It ends when General Howe, a Britsh general, flee for Nova Scotia with his fleet of ships, his troops, and a number of loyalists.
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Jefferson set forth a list of grievances against the King in order to justify before the world the breaking of ties between the colonies and the mother country.
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Even though this battle is won by the British, the colonsts perserved their army.
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This battle was a morale boost, and it allows the colonists to reject peace treaty.
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This battle demonstrated that the colonists were able to make an offensive surge.
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This is the battle where the French enter the war.
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It was an agreement among the 13 founding states that legally established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.
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Washington's army, who was in poor condition, entered Valley Forge where they would stay for the winter of 1777-1778. They were poorly feed, clothes and sheltered.
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This battle shows the initial dominance of British in South.
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This battle changes the US strategy in South and hardens resolve to fight (gut check).
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This was the last major land battle of the American Revolution.
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This treaty is what ended the war between the colonies and Britain. It established U.S. boundaries, specified certain fishing rights, allowed creditors of each country to be paid by citizens of the other, restored the rights and property of Loyalists, opened up the Mississippi River to citizens of both nations and provided for evacuation of all British forces.
