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      "notes": "North American theater of the Seven Years' War. Britain's costly victory doubled its national debt, driving colonial taxation — the root cause of the disputes.",
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      "notes": "27 delegates from 9 colonies met in New York City; adopted a Declaration of Rights and Grievances (19 Oct 1765) — the first unified colonial political action.",
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      "notes": "Parliament repealed the Stamp Act but simultaneously asserted authority to legislate for the colonies \"in all cases whatsoever.\" (Repeal date 18 Mar 1766; a minority cite 11 Mar.)",
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      "notes": "Multi-day cluster (Vice Admiralty Court Act followed 8 Mar 1768). Duties on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea; strengthened customs enforcement. Most duties repealed 1770, but the tea duty was kept.",
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      "notes": "Overnight 9–10 Jun 1772. Rhode Island colonists boarded and burned the grounded British customs schooner HMS Gaspee — one of the first violent acts of colonial defiance.",
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      "name": "Committees of Correspondence established",
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      "notes": "Samuel Adams led the creation of the Boston Committee of Correspondence, building the intercolonial communication network that would coordinate revolution.",
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      "name": "Tea Act",
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      "notes": "Granted the British East India Company a monopoly on colonial tea sales while retaining the Townshend tea duty.",
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      "name": "Boston Tea Party",
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      "notes": "Colonists (some disguised as Mohawks) destroyed 342 chests of East India Company tea aboard three ships at Griffin's Wharf in Boston Harbor.",
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      "notes": "Boston Port Act (31 Mar), Massachusetts Government Act & Administration of Justice Act (both 20 May), Quartering Act (2 Jun), and Quebec Act (22 Jun) — punitive laws that united colonial opposition.",
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      "name": "Powder Alarm",
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      "notes": "A British seizure of Massachusetts gunpowder triggered a mass mobilization of militia — a rehearsal for the war to come.",
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      "name": "Suffolk Resolves",
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      "notes": "Massachusetts county resolutions declaring the Coercive Acts unconstitutional; endorsed by the First Continental Congress, they signaled willingness to resist by force.",
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      "name": "First Continental Congress",
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      "notes": "56 delegates from 12 colonies met in Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia, to coordinate resistance to the Coercive Acts.",
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      "name": "Continental Association",
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      "notes": "The Congress adopted a comprehensive boycott of British goods, enforced by local committees — a major step toward unified colonial governance.",
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      "name": "PHASE 2 — Founding: Revolution & Independence (1775–1783)",
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      "name": "American Revolutionary War (overall span)",
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      "notes": "Active hostilities largely ceased after Yorktown (Oct 1781); the war formally ended with the Treaty of Paris (3 Sep 1783).",
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      "notes": "The first military engagements — day-long running battles in Middlesex County, Massachusetts; later immortalized as \"the shot heard round the world.\"",
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      "name": "Capture of Fort Ticonderoga",
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      "notes": "Ethan Allen, the Green Mountain Boys, and Benedict Arnold seized the fort, whose captured cannon would later force the British from Boston.",
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      "name": "Second Continental Congress convened",
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      "notes": "Functioned as the de facto national government; created the Continental Army (14 Jun 1775) and named George Washington commander (15 Jun 1775). Operated continuously thereafter.",
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      "name": "Battle of Bunker Hill",
      "type": "milestone",
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      "notes": "A costly British victory on the Charlestown peninsula that proved colonial forces could stand against regulars.",
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      "name": "Olive Branch Petition",
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      "notes": "Signed 8 Jul. The Congress's final appeal to King George III for reconciliation; its rejection pushed the colonies toward independence.",
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      "name": "Battle of Quebec (invasion of Canada)",
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      "color": "#ef4444",
      "notes": "Campaign began autumn 1775. A failed American assault to bring Canada into the rebellion; General Montgomery was killed and the invasion collapsed.",
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      "name": "\"Common Sense\" published",
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      "color": "#ef4444",
      "notes": "Thomas Paine's pamphlet made the popular case for independence and sold widely, shifting public opinion decisively.",
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      "name": "British evacuation of Boston (Dorchester Heights)",
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      "notes": "After Washington fortified Dorchester Heights with the Ticonderoga guns, the British fleet evacuated Boston — the first major American strategic victory.",
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      "notes": "Richard Henry Lee's motion that the colonies \"are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.\" Introduced 7 Jun; approved 2 Jul 1776.",
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      "name": "Declaration of Independence — independence approved (vote)",
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      "notes": "The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress on 4 Jul 1776.",
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      "notes": "Most delegates signed the engrossed copy beginning 2 Aug 1776.",
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      "notes": "Main engagement 27 Aug 1776. The largest battle of the war and a serious American defeat; Washington's night evacuation across the East River saved his army.",
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      "notes": "After crossing the ice-choked Delaware on the night of 25–26 Dec, Washington surprised and captured a Hessian garrison — a morale-restoring victory.",
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      "name": "Battle of Princeton",
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      "notes": "Washington defeated British regulars in New Jersey, capping the \"Ten Crucial Days\" and revitalizing the cause.",
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      "notes": "A British victory that opened the road to Philadelphia.",
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      "name": "British occupation of Philadelphia",
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      "notes": "British forces captured the American capital (entry 26 Sep 1777), forcing the Congress to flee.",
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      "notes": "Freeman's Farm (19 Sep) and Bemis Heights (7 Oct); Burgoyne surrendered his army 17 Oct 1777. The turning point of the war — it convinced France to ally openly with the United States.",
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