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Leader of the Sons of Liberty in Boston

Samuel Adams

100

1775

Battle of Lexington and Concord

100

Tax on paper goods

Stamp Act

100

This battle began the Revolutionary War

Battle of Lexington and Concord

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Crossing the Delaware

200

Author of Common Sense

Thomas Paine

200

1773

Boston Tea Party

200

To not buy goods as an act of protest

Boycott

200

This battle led directly to the Franco-American Alliance

Saratoga

200

This section of the Declaration of Independence lists the ways the Great Britain has trampled on American rights

List of Grievences

300

This King decided to help the Americans in the Revolutionary War

King Louis XVI

300

1770

Boston Massacre

300

This group of laws punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party

The Intolerable Acts

300

Immediately before this battle, Washington's army crossed the Delaware

Battle of Trenton

300

This section of the Declaration of Independence outlines America's values

Preamble

400

The American general who used a strategy of fighting, retreating, and wearing down the British in the South?

Nathanael Greene

400

1781

Yorktown

400

The Continental Congress sent this to King George III in a final attempt to seek peace

The Olive Branch Petition

400

Though technically a British victory, this battle showed the Americans would not be easily defeated

Bunker Hill

400

The meeting between the colonies at Philadelphia to determine a collective response to the Intolerable Acts

1st Continental Congress

500

Boston doctor and Son of Liberty who sent Paul Revere on his Midnight Ride and was later killed at Bunker Hill

Joseph Warren

500

1783

Treaty of Paris

500

This political body in Great Britain taxed the colonies without representing them

Parliament

500

This devastating British victory was helped by General Horatio Gates fleeing his from the Continental Army in the heat of battle

Camden

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This country was the last to join  the Revolutionary War in 1780, after the United States, Great Britain, France and Spain.

The Netherlands

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