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French and Indian War
It was the war between France and Great Britian. Great Britian gains Canada but spends a huge amount of money on the war. Britian wanted the American colonies to pay part of the price of the war, which made them impose more taxes on the colonists. -
Stamp Act
It was a tax that the british put on the american colonies that required them ot pay a tax on every paper they used and the paper had to have a stamp on it. It fueled the fire of the hate that the colonists felt for the British. -
Boston Massacre
Colonists attacked a grouup of British soldiers who were guarding a customs house. Now the Americans thought that the British soldiers were going around killing Americans. -
Boston Tea Party
The tea act requored colonists to buy their tea only from the British East Indian Company, which underminds many local merchants. Colonists dressed as native americans boarded ships in the harbor adn dumped the tea overboard. -
Intalerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Lexington and Concord
It was the first offical fight of the American Revolution. It set the stage of how the war was going to go. -
Declaration of independence
It declared the independnce from Breat Britian. It made the thirteen colonies its own independant country. -
Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. -
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Yorktown
The battle of Yorktown was the last major battle of the American Revolution. The colonists won this battle and the British surrendered. -
Treaty of Paris
It ended the revolutionary war and gave teh american colonies independence. -
Constitution
Its the principle laws of the United States. It outlines the essential and most imprtant freedoms the American people are given. -
Bill of Rights
The bill of rights is the first 10 ammendments of the constitution. It's a major documents for the United States that gave people freedoms.
