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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION - Coggle Diagram

- - - - to pay his debts after fighting in the Seven Years' War
      - It refused to allow the colonies to be represented in Parliament, which made this decisions
      - Colonists protested
        
        Boston Tea Party, they threw a cargo of tea into the sea in Boston
        
        the British government sent troops to Boston and closed the port
        
        the beginning of the conflict
- - - - the colonists' won at the Battle of Saratoga
      - France and Spain to offer them support
      - the two sides were more closely matched
        
        ceasefire
    - - Great Britain had some military successes
      - colonists took actions that were politically significant
        
        On 4 July 1776
        
        the Continental Congress proclaimed the Declaration of Independence
  - - - Great Britain recognised American independence