The American Revolution
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Key Moments in American Revolution
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- 1765 – Stamp Act
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- 1767 – Townshend Act
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- 1770 – Boston Massacre
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- 1773 – Boston Tea Party
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- 1774 – The ‘Intolerable Acts’
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- 1774 – 1st Continental Congress
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- 1775 – 2nd Continental Congress
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- 1776 – Siege of Boston
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- 1776 – American Declaration of Independence published
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- 1776 – Battle of Trenton
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- 1777 – Battle of Saratoga
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- 1777-78 – Winter at Valley Forge
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- 1778 – France & USA sign Treaty of Alliance. France joins war against Britain
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- 1781 – British defeat & surrender at the Battle of Yorktown
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- 1783 – Treaty of Paris signed by Britain & USA. Formally recognises USA as an independent country.
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- 1787 – American Constitutional Convention
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- 1789 – George Washington becomes the 1st President of the United States of America
Map of the United States of America
(1789)
