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** R **** is for Rally Mohawks **
 * Rally Mohawks was the one that didn’t want to pay no taxes to King Goerge III and was fighting to pay no taxes for the colonists and her self. **

S is for Sugar Act of 1765 A law, colonists had to pay taxes on goods such as sugar and molasses. It also punished smugglers harshly.

T is for Townshend Act of 1767 A law that allow people to search through colonists homes and possessions without warning due to something called Writs of Assistance

U is for United States

The Declaration of Independence broke all ties with Great Britain. The United States of America was born on July 4, 1776.

V is for Valley Forge Washington's army spent the winter Valley Forge. British troops were warm and well-fed in Philadelphia while the Americans lived in tents in the cold. Many of the American soldiers got sick and died because of the cold.

W is for Writs of Assistance The // Writs of Assistance // case involved a legal dispute during 1761 in which 63 Boston merchants petitioned the Massachusetts Superior Court to challenge the legality of a particular type of Search Warrant called a Writ of assistance. Also known as // Paxton's Case //, the // Writs of Assistance // case contributed to the Founding Fathers' original understanding of Search and Seizure law, planted the seeds of Judicial Review in the United States, and helped shape the U.S. concept of Natural Law.

X is for Xavier Cathedral The Xavier Cathedral is a church where all the soldiers who fought in American Revolution who died, where buried in the Xavier Cathedral church for fighting in the American Revolution War.

Y is for YORKTOWN

Yorktown is where the Revolutionary War took place. The battle started in 1775 in Yorktown, Virginia, where the British troops were camped out.The battle was in between Americans and French against the British redcoats. Generals Washington and Rochambeau tricked the British into thinking they would be in New York, but actually they went south to Virginia. They surrounded the British by land and cut off their escape route by the York River. Cornwallis was not able to get reinforcements. General Cornwallis was forced to surrender his troops at Yorktown.Then The British surrendered at Yorktown on October 17, 1781. The agreement to end the Revolutionary War was called the Treaty of Paris which was signed in 1783. That treaty sealed the peace between Great Britain and the new country of the United States.