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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.
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Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was a secret underground society created due to the social and political fallout of the French and Indian War.
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Stamp Act of 1765
The British needed to station a large army in North America as a consequence and on 22 March 1765 the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which sought to raise money to pay for this army through a tax on all legal and official papers and publications circulating in the colonies.
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Boston Massacre
On March 5, 1770, seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony.
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Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party sparked controversy almost immediately. Governor Thomas Hutchinson condemned it as an act of treason. Samuel Adams worked tirelessly to publicize the Tea Party. He ardently promoted it as an act of defense against British taxation and a last resort to save colonial rights. Other colonial leaders like Benjamin Franklin and George Washington disapproved, Washington believed the Tea Party to be a flagrant overstep by the Sons of Liberty.
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Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
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The Boston Port Act was the first of the Coercive Acts. Parliament passed the bill on March 31, 1774, and King George III gave it royal assent on May 20th.
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First Continental Congress meets
The Congress first met in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774, with delegates from each of the 13 colonies except Georgia.
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Lexington and Concord
April 19. British troops march into the small town of Lexington at about 5:00 a.m. to find themselves faced by a militia company of more 70 men.
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Battle of Bunker Hill
"By early 1775 tensions between Britain and her colonies had escalated It all came to a head in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord. A detachment of 1,000 Massachusetts and Connecticut soldier gathered to defend a hill in Charlestown. Among the defenders were several enslaved and free African Americans as well. The violent clash of these forces on what is mistakenly known as “Bunker Hill” signaled that the colonial revolt would not be easily extinguished." -www.battlefields.org -
Battle of Trenton
After crossing the Delaware River , General George Washington’s army defeated a garrison of Hessian mercenaries at Trenton. The victory set the stage for another success at Princeton a week later and boosted the morale of the American troops. The army that the British thought was all but defeated destroyed a major garrison and suffered very few casualties. The Americans also managed to capture critical supplies, including food and clothing, in the process.-www.battlefields.org -
Battle of Camden
The Battle of Camden (16 August 1780) was a major battle of the southern theater of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). It saw a British army under Lord Charles Cornwallis decisively defeat an American force under General Horatio Gates, thereby securing British control of South Carolina and allowing Cornwallis to invade North Carolina.
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Battle of Yorktown
The outcome in Yorktown, Virginia marked the conclusion of the last major battle of the American Revolution and the start of a new nation's independence. It also cemented Washington’s reputation as a great leader and eventual election as first president of the United States. -
3/5 Compromise
It determined that three out of every five slaves were counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation.
-perspectivesofchange.hms.harvard.edu Southern states wanted representation apportioned by population, the Three-Fifths Compromise seemed to guarantee that the South would be strongly represented in the House of Representatives and would have disproportionate power in electing Presidents.
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Great Compromise
The compromise provided for a bicameral federal legislature that used a dual system of representation: the upper house would have equal representation from each state, while the lower house would have proportional representation based on a state's population.
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Bill of Rights adopted
On October 2, 1789, President Washington sent copies of the 12 amendments adopted by Congress to the states. By December 15, 1791, three-fourths of the states had ratified 10 of these, now known as the “Bill of Rights.”
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