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Bill Of Right
The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. These limitations serve to protect the natural rights of liberty and property. They guarantee a number of personal freedoms, limit the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and reserve some powers to the states and the public. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the comprtition for jobs between the colonists and the poorly paid solidiers.
In 1770 a fight borke out over job and that evening a mob gathered in front of the Customs House and taunted the guard.
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Boston Tea Party
In 1773 Lord Frederick North and the British prime minister faced a new major problem.
17 million pounds of tea was spilled, The company was going bankruptcy.
To save money the North devised the tea act watch granted the company the right action would colonial free of the taxes that the colonial tea sellers had to pay. -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was an American founding father who was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence.
He served an the Continental Congress in Virginia. He then severed as a diplomat, stationed in Paris, initially as a commissioner to help negotiate commercial treaties.
During the administration of President George Washington, Jefferson advised against a national bank and the Jay Treaty. Upon leaving office, with his close friend James Madison he organized the Democrat -
Declarartion 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. John Adams put forth a resolution earlier in the year which made a formal declaration inevitable. -
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U.s History Midterm
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Treaty Of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on the one hand and the United States of America and its allies on the other.The other combatant nations, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic had separate agreements; for details of these, and the negotiations which produced all four treaties, see Peace of Paris 1783. It is most famous for being "exceedingly generous" to the United States in terms of enlarged boundaries. -
Article Of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 founding states that legally established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.ts drafting by the Continental Congress began in mid 1776 and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification in late 1777. The formal ratification by all 13 states was completed in early 1781. -
Shays's Rebellion
Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787.
The rebellion was named after Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War.
The rebellion started on August 21, 1786, over financial difficulties and by January 1787, over one thousand Shaysites had been arrested. A militia that had been raised as a private army defeated an attack on the federal Springfield Armory by the main Shaysite force on February 3, 1787, and five reb -
Three Branches Of Government
The legislative branch of government is made up of the Congress and government agencies, such as the Government Printing Office and Library of Congress, that provide assistance to and support services for the Congress.
The executive branch of Government makes sure that the laws of the United States are obeyed. The President of the United States is the head of the executive branch of government. This branch is very large so the President gets help from the Vice President. -
George Washington Becomes President and Creates the Cabinet
Was the first President of the United States of America, serving from 1789 to 1797, and dominant military and political leader of the United States from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of the Constitution in 1787.
He was born into the provincial gentry of a wealthy, well-connected Colonial Virginia family who owned tobacco plantations.
