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The stamp act
The first British parliamentary attempt to raise revenue through direct taxation on a wide variety of colonial transactions. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
Declaration of Independence
the founding document of the United States, was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. -
Battle of Yorktown
Battle of Yorktown, the German Battle, ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops -
Treaty of Paris
signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and United States of America on September 3, 1783, officially ending the American Revolutionary War. -
Constitutional Convention
The event was to decide how America was going to be governed -
Naturalization Act of 1790
a law of the United States Congress that set the first uniform rules for the granting of United States citizenship -
Bill of rights
The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
