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Boston Massacre
When british soilders attacked citizens for throwing snow balls in 1770.
When the citizens didnt like the soilders because they were always watching them.
The soilders shot by accident and they had to go to court because they thought they did on pourpose. -
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the old days
Its all the events in order -
Boston Tea party
The boston tea party was made of colonists.
It was a key event in the american revolusion.
They taxed the tea but put it in the water becaus no one wanted to. -
Thomas jefferson
American Founding Father who was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence (1776)
He helped make it.
They thought he was the founding father of the declaration. -
Declaration of Independence
They anouced the 13 colonies.
John Adams made the declaration inevitable.
They adopted the declaration. -
articles of confederation
they edited all the articles through out the years 1776 to 1778.
it talks about.
agreement among the 13 colonies.
it legally established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first consitution. -
Treaty of paris
this ended the american revolusion war.
the other countrys did seprate agreements.
they had the ten articles of key points. -
shays rebellion
it was an uprising that took place in central and western massachusetts.
it was over finacial diffulculties by january 1787.
it energized calls to reevaluate the Articles of Confederation. -
three branches of the government
the legislative branch makes laws and has the house of representatives and the senate.
the exacutive branch has the power to inforce the laws and has the president and the white house.
the judicial branch ha sthe power to judge the laws and has the supreme court and the 9 justices. -
george washington becomes president and creates the cabinet.
He became the frist president of the united states of the america.
He hand picked his cabinet
.he was president for about 8 years. -
bill of rights
The bill of rights has 10 rights.
its the biggest part of the consitution.
The amendments were introduced by James Madison to the 1st United States Congress as a series of legislative articlesonsitution.
