THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
LEXINGTON CONCORD AND BUNKER HILL THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BEGINS
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Ratifying the U.S. Constitution
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Establishing the United States of America
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Announcing independence from Britain
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Writing the Articles of Confederation
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Detailed explanation-1: -By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain.
Detailed explanation-2: -The 1770 Boston Massacre was only one in a series of events that led American colonists to revolt against Britain. This was not the first time American colonists found themselves in dispute with Great Britain. But this time the cooler heads did not prevail.
Detailed explanation-3: -On July 4, 1776 the Congress took the important step of formally declaring the colonies’ independence from Great Britain.
Detailed explanation-4: -The most famous of these protests was the Boston Tea Party. In December 1773, the Sons of Liberty led a group onto British East India Company ships and dumped over 300 chests of British tea into Boston Harbor. To punish the colonists (and especially Massachusetts), British Parliament passed the Coercive Acts in 1774.