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Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, called the Incident on King Street by the British, in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. -
Boston tea party
The Boston tea party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a city in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the tax policy of the British government and the East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. -
The 1st continental congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from all thirteen colonies except for Georgia met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts by the British Parliament. -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. -
2nd continental congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the twelve Colonies (Every Colony except Georgia) that started meeting on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Battle of Bunker hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Three-Fifths Compromise
The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives. -
George Washington
George Washington served as commander-in-chief of the contiental army during the American Reolutionary war -
Jay's Treaty
The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and The United States of America, commonly known as the Jay Treaty, and also as Jay's Treaty, the British Treaty, and the Treaty of London of 1794 -
John Adams
Founding father, firt vice president, and second president of the united states. Appointed John Marshall as chief justice of the united states. -
The Alien and Sedition Acts
The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with France, later known as the Quasi-War. -
Virginia and Kentucky resolutions
Political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799. The Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition acts were unconstitutional and could be nullified by the states. -
John Marshall
John Marshall was the fourth Chief Justice of the United States whose court opinions helped lay the basis for American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court of the United States a coequal branch of government along with the legislative and executive branches. -
Thomas Jefferson
Founding father, principal author of the Declaration of independence, and the third president of the united states. Jefferson also more than doubled the size of the country by makin the most greatest deal with the rench, buying the Louisiana purchase. -
Aaron Burr
The third vice president of the united states under Thomas Jefferson. Burr conspired up a plan to raise an army and take over Mexico, he was tried several times and finally charged with treason by Jefferson. -
Marbury v. Madison
Marbury v. Madison, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. -
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
A naval engagment that occured off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia on june 22, 1807 between the British warship and America frigate. This even raised tension between the two countries leading up to the war of 1812. -
The Embargo act
The Embargo Act of 1807 was a general embargo enacted by the United States Congress against Great Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars.
The embargo was imposed in response to violations of U.S. neutrality, in which American merchantmen and their cargo were seized as contraband of war by the belligerent European navies -
The Non-intercourse act
The Nonintercourse Act is the collective name given to six statutes passed by the United States Congress in 1790, 1793, 1796, 1799, 1802, and 1834. -
War Hawks
A war hawk, or simply hawk for short, is a term used in politics for someone favoring war in a debate over whether to go to war, or whether to continue or escalate an existing war. War hawks are the opposite of war doves. -
Henry Clay
Clay was a dominant figure in both the First and Second Party systems. As a leading war hawk in 1812, he favored war with Britain and played a significant role in leading the nation to war in the War of 1812 -
The war of 1812
A military conflict between the U.S. and the Bitish empire -
The Hartford convention
The Hartford Convention was an event in 1814–1815 in the United States in which New England Federalists met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 and the political problems arising from the federal government's increasing power. -
The Treaty of Ghent
The Treaty of Ghent was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom. -
The Battle of New Orleans
The battle of New Orleans the final major battle of the War of 1812. The Battle of New Orleans is widely regarded as the greatest American land victory of the war. -
The "era of good feeling"
This era marked a period in the politicl history of the United States that reflected a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans. -
Adams-Onis Treaty
The Adams–Onís Treaty also known as the Transcontinental Treaty or the Purchase of Florida, was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that gave Florida to the U.S. and set out a boundary between the U.S. and New Spain now Mexico. -
The Missouri compromise
The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30' north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri.
