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The French and Indian War (also known as the 7 Years War) was a fight for the Ohio River Valley from the British Empire.
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The Stamp Act required colonist to pay taxes of everything even dice, playing cards, and newspapers. The Stamp Act was created to raise money for they army. Soon it led to violent protests.
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A political organization that hid in secrecy to soon over take the british in America. They led the Boston Tea Party -
British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six. A crowd of people confronted the british soldiers which start the Boston massacre -
a group of 30 to 130 men, some dressed in the Indigenous Americans(Mohawk warrior disguises), boarded the three vessels and, over the course of three hours, dumped all 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. -
The Intolerable Acts were 4 laws put in place by the British Parliament to punish Massachusetts's Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
A delegate from each of the 13 colonies (except for Georgia) met together to talk about the restraints on made on trade by the British. -
This petition was to be sent to the King as one last attempt at stopping the war from happening in which the King refused to even read. -
This declaration was to tell and give reasoning on why were separated from Great Britain. -
This was the United States first constitutional document until the current constitution was put out. -
Cornwallis hoped to keep his men in the Chesapeake town until fresh supplies and reinforcements could arrive from Britain. The French and the Americans conspired to capture the British before that could happen. Soon outnumbered British troops surrendered.
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The Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783, ending the War of the American Revolution. The agreement recognized U.S. independence and granted the U.S. significant western territory. -
The 3/5 compromise showed 3 out every 5 slaves were counted when determining a state's total population. -
The Great Compromise, (also known as the Sherman Compromise), was to create the legislative representation for each state in the US.
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The constitution had been mainly written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and, John Jay, in 1787. The following year it was ratified has been in use till now. -
The president George Washington had sent copies of the 12 amendments by Congress to 10 states that had ratified.