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1765 | British Parliament passes Stamp Act for taxing American colonies GO ! |
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1765 | Colonists resist Stamp Act GO ! |
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1766 | Repeal of Stamp Act, but Declaratory Act states Britain's right to tax American colonies GO ! |
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1766 | Tenant rent war in New York |
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1767 | Townshend Duties: taxes on imports of tea, glass, paper, and dyestuffs in American colonies; non-importation agreement at public protest meeting in Boston GO ! |
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1768 | British troops occupy Boston |
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1770 | Townshend duties repealed (except on tea) |
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1771 | North Carolina Regulators defeated |
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1772 | Boston Assembly demands rights of colonies, threatens secession |
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1772 | Gaspee incident in Rhode Island |
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1774 | Dunmore's War |
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1774 | First Continental Congress meets GO ! |
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1774 | "Intolerable Acts" |
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1775 | Olive Branch Petition sent to King George III |
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1775 | American Revolution begins GO ! |
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1775 | Lord Dunmore's proclamation to slaves and servants in Virginia |
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1775 | Iroquois Six Nations pledge neutrality |
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1775 | Continental Congress urges "states" to establish new governments |
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1775 | 10 May - Second Continental Congress meets |
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1776 | Common Sense published GO ! |
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1776 | British evacuate Boston and seize New York City |
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1776 | Eight states draft constitutions |
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1776 | Cherokee raids and American retaliation |
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1776 | March/May France and Spain secretly provide support to American colonists through fictitious companies |
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1776 | 4 July - Second Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence GO ! |
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1776 | 09 October - Mission of San Francisco de Asis is founded (San Francisco) |
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1778 | American colonies sign treaties with France and Holland GO ! |
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1779 | Massachusetts state constitutional convention
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1779 | Sullivan destroys Iroquois villages in New York |
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1780 | Massachusetts constitution ratified |
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1780 | Destruction of Iroquois Confederacy |
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1781 | Articles of Confederation ratified by states GO ! |
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1782 | Bank of North America established in Philadelphia |
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1782 | 30 November - Americans and British sign a Provisional peace treaty in Paris GO ! |
