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The French and Indian War
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended witht the Treaty of Paris in 1763. It was to decide if Britian or France would be the strong power in North America. France,its colonists, and Indian allies fought against Britain.
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The Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty were a grassroots group of instigators and provocateurs in colonial America used an extreme form of civil disobedience. They used threats, and in some cases actual violence to intimidate loyalists and outrage the British government. Their goal was to moderate colonial leaders into a confrontation with the Crown.
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The Stamp Act (March 1765)
The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British Parliament. It passed the Stamp Act on March 22, 1765 and repealed it in 1766, but issued a Declaratory Act at the same time to reaffirm its authority to pass any colonial legislation it saw fit.
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The Townshend Acts (June-July 1767)
The Townshend Acts of 1767 were a series of measures passed by the British Parliament in 1767,that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. But American colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw the Acts as an abuse for power.
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The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, On King Street in Boston. It was street brawl between American colonists, and a lone a British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter. Killing 5 people.
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The 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 tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
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The Continental Congress
The Continental Congress served as the government of the 13 American colonies and later the United States from 1774-1789. It was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Intolerable Acts.
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The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament on March 31, 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were to punish the Massachusetts colonists to their defiance in The Tea Party Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat column.
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The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was the first formal statement by a nation's people asserting their right to choose their own government. This severed their political connections to Great Britain.
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The Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain.
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The Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown was a conflict was that Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington as French and American forces trapped the British at Yorktown. This ended the American Revolutionary War.
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The Paris Treaty Signed...
The Paris Treaty formally ended the Revolutionary War. In the Treaty of Paris, the British Crown formally recognized American independence and cede most of its territory east of the Mississippi River to the United States, doubling the size of the new nation and paving the way for westward expansion.
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The Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention took place from May 25, 1787- Sep 17, 1787 in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. The point of the event was to decide how America was to be governed.
[https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/constitutional-convention-begins]
