The American Revolution

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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 Ministers 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
GoodsPaint, Paper, TeaSuspends New York
General Assembly
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Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770
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Samuel Adams the Sons of Liberty
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Boston Tea Party December 1773
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Coercive/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 CongressSeptember 5, 1774
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The Empire Strikes Back
Lord Frederick North
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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 mens soulsThomas
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 YorktownOctober 19, 1781
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Oh God! Its All Over
Lord Frederick North
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Treaty of Paris September 3, 1783
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African Americans the American Revolutionary War
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Molly Pitcher