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| Pontiac's Rebellion; Proclamation of 1763. |
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| Parliament passed the Stamp Act (direct tax); repealed same year. |
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| Parliament passed the Townshend Acts. |
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| Samuel Adams creates the Committees of Correspondence. |
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| Boston Tea Party takes place. |
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| Intolerable Acts passed; first Continental Congress. |
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| Lexington and Concord; Bunker's Hill; Olive Branch Petition; Second Continental Congress. |
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| Lexington and Concord; Bunker's Hill; Olive Branch Petition; Second Continental Congress. |
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| Thomas Paine's Common Sense is published; Colonies declare independence; Battle of Trenton; June- Resolution of Independence, Richard Henry Lee; July- Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson. |
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| Battle of Saratoga (October); winter at Valley Forge. |
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| British surrender at Yorktown. |
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| Colonists and British sign Treaty of Paris. |
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| Franco-American Alliance formed. |
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| Spain declares war on Britain. |
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| Turning point in Revolutionary War, 1777. |
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| Attack on Hessians, 1776. |
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| Final battle of war, small fighting ensued, 1781. |
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| Articles of Confederation instituted. |
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| Divided thirty-six sections into one square mile. Sixteenth section was for education. |
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| Northwest Ordnance of 1787 |
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| Orderly obtainment of statehood. Needed constitution, and large enough population. |
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| Constitutional Convention. |
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