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The Sugar Act
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The Stamp Act
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Stamp Act is repealed
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Boston Massacre
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Boston Tea Party
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Tea Act
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Intolerable Acts
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First Continental Congress
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Ride of Paul Revere and William Dawes
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The shot heard 'round the world
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Second Continental Congress
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George Washington becomes Commander in Chief
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Common Sense is published
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Debates and Revisions of the Declaration of Independence
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Declaration of Independence is adopted
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Hessians capture Fort Washington, New York
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George Washington crosses the Delaware
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New flag is adopted
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Lafayette arrives in Philadelphia
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French Troops arrive to help Americans
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Articles of Confederation
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Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
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United States and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Paris