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Bot GPT 3.5 1. The British government passed several acts, such as the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts, that imposed taxes on the American colonists without their consent.
2. The Boston Tea Party in 1773, where colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act, further escalated tensions between the colonies and Britain.
3. The Intolerable Acts in 1774, which were punitive measures imposed on the colonists in response to the Boston Tea Party, fueled anti-British sentiment and united the colonies in opposition to British rule.
4. The Battles of Lexington and Concord in April 1775 marked the first military engagements of the Revolutionary War, as British troops attempted to confiscate colonial military supplies.
5. The Second Continental Congress convened in May 1775 and eventually issued the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, officially declaring the American colonies' independence from Britain and sparking the Revolutionary War.