The American revolution

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  1. 2. the act by which the continental congress declared the colonies to be free and independent of England on July 4th, 1776.
  2. 4. a riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons.
  3. 5. Common Sense is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
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  1. 1. an event where colonists, disgused as Indians, boared three ships and tossed several hundred chests of tea in the harbor in protest of against British tea tax.
  2. 3. British general who surrendered at the battle of Yorktown in 1781.