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The Great Compromise was forged in 1787 during the constitutional convention.
The states with the largest populations wanted congressional representation based on population, while smaller states demanded equal representation
The debate almost destroyed us constitution in 1787 the constitutional convention delegates f larger states believed each state’s representation. -
3/5 was an compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention. -
The Battle Of Yorktown started when Charles Cornwallis and his army surrounded George Washington American force and French allies. The outcome of the battle of York town conclusion of the last major battle of the American revolution and the start of a new nation independence
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The Boston Tea Party
In 1773 Native Americans boarded ship beaver and dumbed over 342 crates of tea in Boston harbor.
10,000 pounds of tea was destroyed which is worth 1.7m dollars today time .
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The French And Indian War:
It was an 7 year war that started in 1756 and ended in 1763 called the Second Hundreds War .
1754 and 1755 the French won string of victories defeating in fast successions by the young George Washington. -
The Stamp act of 1765 was the first internal tax that required colonist to pay taxes on every paper they ever used
The Stamp act came at a time when the British empire was in dept. from the 7 year war .
The Stamped act was passed do to the British soldiers in North America to maintain peace between Native Americans and the colonists. -
The sons of liberty were a grassroots group of instigators, provocateurs in colonial America who used a form of civil disobedience.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of measures. The British Parliament in 1767 taxed goods imported to the American colonies.
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On March 5, 1770, a group of American colonists gathers at the custom House in Boston and started taunting the British soldiers guarding the building.
British troops were sent to Boston in 1768 to force the taxation measure passed by a British parliament . -
The Treaty Of Paris ended the American revolution on September 3 in 1783.
The treaty stretched back to April 1775, in Lexington, Massachusetts, when American colonists answered King George the 3rd refusal to grant them political and economic reform with armed revolution Fun Fact : On September 1782, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and John Jay, began official peace negotiations with the British -
1786 in the post-Revolutionary War Articles of Confederation were apparent such as the lack of central authority over foreign and domestic commerce.
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The Bill Of Rights were designed to protect the basic rights of U.S. citizens guaranteeing the freedom of speech.
In 1689 the Bill of Rights was also drawn from Virginia’s Declaration of rights drafted by George Mason in 1776.
