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The Stamp Act
This is an act of the british parliament in 1756 that excacted revenue from the american colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legak and commercial documents. -
Intolerable Acts
The intolerable acts was thre American patriots' term for a series of puntitive laws passed by british parliament in 1774 after The Boston Tea Party. -
Declaration of Independence
the statement adopted by the continential congress, also annoucing that the 13 american colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as 13 newly independent sovereign states, and no longer aprt of the british empire -
Battle of Yorktown
the seige proved to be the last major land battle of the american revolutionary war, in the north american theatre, as a surrender by cornwallis, and the capture of both him and his army. -
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America. -
Constituional convention begins
A gathering for the purpose of writing a new consitiution or revising an exsisting constitution. which in this case they were addressing problems of the united sates.
