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The American Revolution
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French & Indian War (Seven Years War)
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King George III
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George Grenville Prime Minister’s Plan to Pay French & Indian War Debt Sugar Act (1764) Currency Act (1764) Quartering Act (1765) Stamp Act (1765)
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Stamp Act Crisis, 1765
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Townsend Acts (1767) Taxes on Imported Goods: Paint, Paper, & Tea Suspends New York General Assembly
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Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770
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Boston Massacre 1770 Compare this image to the last one. How could they present the event differently?
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Samuel Adams & the Sons of Liberty
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Boston Tea Party December 1773
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Intolerable Acts, 1774 Closed the Port at Boston Harbor
Dismantled Massachusetts General Assembly Removed Royal Officials from Local Courts Required the Quartering of British Troops
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The Continental Congress September 5, 1774
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“The Shot Heard Around the World” April 19, 1775
The Battle of Lexington
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Battles of Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775
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Second Continental Congress April 1775
Olive Branch Petition Create Continental Army Appointed General George Washington to Command the Army
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General George Washington
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Thomas Paine & Common Sense (1776)
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John Adams Robert Livingston Benjamin Franklin Roger Sherman Thomas Jefferson
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Declaration of Independence
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The Exodus of the Loyalists
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“These are the times that try men’s souls” Thomas Paine, “The Crisis”
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Battle of Trenton, Christmas 1776
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Valley Forge, Pennsylvania Winter 1777-1778
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Cornwallis at Yorktown October 19, 1781
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Treaty of Paris September 3, 1783
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