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The French and Indian War
The war was faught along the fronteirs of New France and the British colonies. The French were greatly outnumbered, so they made heavy use of Indian allies. -
Stamp Act
An act that made all American people tax every single papaer they used.ships papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications and even playing cards were being taxed. The money used was for protecting American fronteir. -
Robert J. Fulton
Born in November of 1765, he was the creator of the first successful steamboat.That made transportation and trading easier. -
Boston Massacre
British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. But in order to protect and support crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation -
Revolutionary War
It had began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies, but slowly grew into a world war between Britain on one side and the newly formed United States, France, Netherlands and Spain -
Declaration of Independence
It announced that the thirteen American colonies that were at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and were no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a union that would become a new nation which is the United States of America. -
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1776 to 1861
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Abolitionist Movement
The abolotionist movemtent started after the Revolutionary war in september after 1780. During the following decades, the abolitionist movement grew in northern states, and Congress had regulated the expansion of slavery in the new states admitted to the union. -
Missouri Compromise
Maine became a free state. It also passed a bill for the admission of Maine with an amendment that enabled the people of Missouri to form a state constitution. -
Election of 1824
John Adams and Andrew Jackson were running againist eachother, but John Adams won. He eventually created the Wigh Party and along with Henry Clay The National Republican Party.
