Evaluate the extent of change in ideas about American independence from 1763 to 1783

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Presentation U.S. History Primary Source Timeline

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  Overview Until the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, few colonists in British North America objected to their place in the British Empire.

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  British Reforms and Colonial Resistance, 1763-1766 When the French and Indian War finally ended in 1763, no British subject on either side of the Atlantic could have foreseen the coming conflicts between the parent country and its North American colonies.

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  The Colonies Move Toward Open Rebellion, 1773-1774 After the Boston Massacre and the repeal of most of the Townshend Duties (the duty on tea remained in force), a period of relative quiet descended on the British North American colonies. Even so, the crises of the past decade had created incompatible mindsets on opposite sides of the Atlantic.

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  First Shots of War, 1775 For some months, people in the colonies had been gathering arms and powder and had been training to fight the British, if necessary, at a moment's notice.

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  Creating a Continental Army According to Washington's aide Alexander Hamilton, the military strategy the General would pursue throughout the Revolutionary War would be to preserve a good army, to take advantage of favorable opportunities, and waste and defeat the enemy by piecemeal.

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  Revolutionary War: Northern Front, 1775-1777 In the first eighteen months of armed conflict with the British (the conflict would not become a "war for independence" until July 4, 1776), Washington had begun to create an army and forced the British army in Boston to evacuate that city in March 1776.

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  Revolutionary War: The Home Front Defining a "home front" in the Revolutionary War is difficult because so much of the thirteen states became, at one time or another, an actual theater of war.

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