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Period: to
American Revolution
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Parliament imposed the Stamp Act on the colonies.
Parliament imposed the Stamp Act on the colonies. -
Stamp Act was repealed
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First Continental Congress
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Battles between the colonists and the British army.
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The Declaration of Independence was born.
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Siege of Yorktown
General Cornwallis was forced to surrender to the American and French forces under Washington at Yorktown in 1781. -
Treaty of Paris was created.
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Constitutional Convention
In 1787 delegates met in Philadelphia at the Constitutional Convention to revise the Articles of Confederation.