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Battle of Trenton
was important because it was the first victory the colonials had for a long time and it was to In order to keep the colonists' effort in the American Revolution from failing completely. -
Stamp Act of 1765
sought to raise money to pay for this army through a tax on all legal and official papers and publications circulating in the colonies. They thought it was fair because people in Britain had been paying a stamp tax for over fifty years. -
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town shed act of 1767
The people did not want to be taxed on glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea ect. They ended up protesting trying to discourage the purchase of British imports. -
Boston massacre
American colonist and British soldiers got into a battle. The Americans were fighting because they didn't want them to have control over there taxes. -
Boston tea party
By the sons of liberty there was a protest about the taxes they would say " No taxation without representation". Then they dumped 342 chest of tea into the harbor that night. -
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
It was a responses from the following year of the Boston tea party. The reasons why the colonies where mad is because it prevented all trade with the British. -
Battles of Lexington & Concord
The battle was for independence the British shot first and that started American War of Independence. The American won this one by Army utilized guerrilla warfare against the British. Raids, ambushes, and spreading disinformation. -
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense published
This pamphlet was created for independence and was an attack to the British because it was believed that they were the main source for the problem's. It united people for there want of independence and transformed into the American Revolution. -
Declaration of Independence adopted
was adopted by the Continental Congress it was supposed to be the colonists' motivations for seeking independence. instead they declared was that American colonists, as a people, had the same rights to self-government as other nations. -
Great Compromise
this was to ensure representation in Congress. As it's weakening the national government -
Battle of Camden
It was the worst American defeat in the field and left the British in temporary control of the southern colonies. And the battle lasted an hour -
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Battle of Yorktown
The reason this battle was important because York town led directly to the peace negotiations that ended the war in 1783 and gave America its independence. they won by dig trenches through which he could move his heavy guns close enough to Yorktown to pound Cornwallis into surrender. -
Treaty of Paris
ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. It officially ended four months later, when the U.S. and Spanish governments signed the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898. -
Constitution is ratified
it means to approve or enact a legally binding act that would not otherwise be binding in the absence of such approval. The 2 states that didn't do it was North Carolina and Rhode Island -
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Constitutional Convention
they was trying to to balance power between the federal government and the governments of the states, and to establish a stronger federal government. They thought the best solution to the young country's problems was to set aside the Articles of Confederation and write a new constitution.