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French and Indian War
Click Here The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. The French and Indian War began 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was a secret organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. It played a major role in most colonies in battling the Stamp Act in 1765. -
Stamp Act of 1765
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
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Townshend Act of 1767
In colonial U.S History, series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant representative assembly and through strict provision -
Boston Massacre
A riot in Boston from Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several people. -
Boston Tea Party
Boston colonists disguised as Indians threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company. -
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
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Also known as the Coercive Acts; a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. For example, one of the laws closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea that they had destroyed. Although the acts were intended to check colonial opposition to Britain, they only inflamed it -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 within the towns of Lexington and Concord.They marked the outbreak of armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in America. -
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense published
[Click Here](http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/ Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, and became an immediate sensation. -
Declaration of Independence adopted
The second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House (now known as Independence Hall) in Philadelphia was the signing place of the official decoration of Independence. -
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Battle of Yorktown
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Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris in 1763 ended the French and Indian after seven years. France gave up its territories in North America,ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies. -
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Constitutional Convention
The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed.Although the Convention had been officially called to revise the existing Articles of Confederation, many delegates had much bigger plans -
Bill of Rights adopted
The first ten amendments in the US constitution created in 1789 and ratified in 1791. Some of these amendments include freedom of speech, assembly, and worship.
