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Albany Congress
Union committee draft -
French and Indian war
Fighting took place between France and Great Britain to control north America -
Townshend act
Taxes on glass lead, paint, paper, and tea -
Boston Massacre
seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony. -
Boston tea party
Men disguised as Indians dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston harbor -
Tea act
Reducing the tax on imported British tea -
First continental Congress
A meeting declaring colonists should have the same rights as an Englishman -
Intolerable acts
4 laws passed by the British Parliament to punsih a colony -
Lexington and Concord
First battle, start of the war -
Bunker Hill
One of the bloodiest battles -
Second continental Congress
They made a army also drafted an olive branch to send KIng George -
Fort Ticonderoga
Americans attacked fort Ticonderoga. -
Declaration of independence
It showed why the colonies wanted independence -
Common sense
Helped sway colonists to independence -
Saratoga
American victory, gained foreign support -
Valley Forge
Harsh winter for the troops, lack of supplies -
French alliance
They agreed to help us fight against Britain -
Yorktown
Britain realized that they were weak compared to the Americans -
Treaty of Paris
Ended the Revolutionary war -
Preamble
Intro to highest law of that land