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The American Revolution

Causes of the American Revolution
1. Proclamation of 1763
2. 1775
  1. Second Continental Congress
  2. Bunker Hill
3. 1764
  1. Committees of Correspondence
  2. Currency Act
  3. Sugar Act
4. 1774
  1. Intolerable Acts
  2. First Continental Congress
5. 1765
  1. Stamp Act Congress
  2. Sons and Daughters of Liberty
6. 1773
  1. Tea Act
  2. Boston Tea Party
7. 1770 - Boston Massacre
8. 1767 - Townshend Acts
Which people involved in this conflict
1. Samuel Adams
2. Andrew Jackson
3. Benjamin Franklin
4. King George III
5. George Washington
Consequences of the revolution
1. 1. It gave birth to a new nation, that is, the United States of America. Under the Treaty of Paris (1783) England acknowledged the independence of her American colonies
2. 2. France regained two small colonies, Tobago in the West Indies and Senegal in West Africa. Spain recovered Minorca and Florida
3. 3. England lost her colonies in America and her national debt increased to a great extent. However England could defeat and destroy the Spanish and French fleets, and thus retain her naval supremacy.
Major battles
1. Lexington and Concord, April 1775
2. Yorktown, October 1781
3. Saratoga, October 1777
4. Rhode Island, August 1778
5. Trenton, December 1776

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