1700-1800

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    The French and Indian War/ Seven's Year War

    https://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/french-indian-war
    "The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years’ War. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war’s expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution."

  • The Boston Massacre

    http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/massacre.html
    "The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry."

  • The Boston Tea Party

    https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party
    "The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of British tea into the harbor. The event was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists."

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/battles-of-lexington-and-concord
    "The Battles of Lexington and Concord fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache."
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    The Revolutionary War

    https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/american-revolution-history
    " The American Revolution, arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies and the colonial government, which represented the British crown. After French assistance helped the Continental Army force the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, the Americans had effectively won their independence, though fighting would not formally end until 1783."

  • Treaty of Alliance

    https://history.state.gov/milestones/1776-1783/french-alliance
    "The single most important diplomatic success of the colonists during the War for Independence was the critical link they forged with France. Representatives of the French and American governments signed the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce on February 6, 1778."
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    Battle of Yorktown

    https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-yorktown-begins
    "On this day in 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War."

  • Georage Washington Became the First President

    https://kr.usembassy.gov/education-culture/kids/us-presidents/george-washigton/
    "On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. “As the first of everything, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent,” he wrote James Madison, “it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.”

  • Bill of Rights Ratified

    https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=13
    "Although 12 amendments were originally proposed, the 10 that were ratified became the Bill of Rights in 1791. They defined citizens' rights in relation to the newly established government under the Constitution."

  • Fugitive Slave Act Passed

    https://www.britannica.com/event/Fugitive-Slave-Acts
    "Fugitive Slave Acts, in U.S. history, statutes passed by Congress in 1793 and 1850 (and repealed in 1864) that provided for the seizure and return of runaway slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a federal territory."