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The British put taxes on all paper goods in America, colonist got really mad.
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England repealed the Stamp Act, the colonist were happy now.
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Colonist got into a fight with British soldiers, five of the colonist were killed.
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Tryon led an attack on a group of rebels.
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A group of rebels dressed as Indians that dumped Britsh tea into the Boston Harbor.
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Twelve colonies came together to discuss how to convince Britian to change its policies of taxation.
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A group of women signed a document that said they were in support of boycott on British goods.
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The British troops ordered to move some of the planks and grease the rest of them.
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The colonies sent a letter to the king of Britan declaring their independence.
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The patriots confronted the British Army and won the battle with fewer soldiers.
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The British army fought patriots outside the Guilford Courthouse, the British lost many men but still won.
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Benjamin Franklin met with Britsh officials in Paris to sign the treaty which formally ended the war.
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On this day in 1787 Congress inacts the Northwest oredinance structuring settlement of the northwest territory and creating a policy for the addition of the new states.
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55 deligates met in Philadelphia to discuss the Articles of the Confederation. They decided that the articles were to weak, so they rewrote the whole thing.
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Delware's ratification proved that the states were willing to consider an extra legal document drafted behind closed doors. In many ways the ratification proccess was assortive second american revolution and Delware's unanamous vote accurately foretold that it take place without bloodshed.
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In 1789, deligates from the states that had verified the consititution elected George Washington as the first president of the United States.
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin to help sort cotton faster.
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The Louisiana Purchase was a deal between America and France where America bought 827,000 square miles of land West of the Mississippi River for $15,000,000.
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The United States issued a law stating that you could no longer bring new slaves into America.
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The Americans joined the war because the British were taking British born american citizens.
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The Britsh Army attacked New Orleans and was quickly destroyed by the better American Army.
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The Indian Removal Act moved thousands of Indians west Mississippi River.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln in 1862. The was written to end slavery. It eventually ended slavery only in the Confederate States.
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The 13th Admendment abolished slavery. It was last ratified on March 16th, 1995.
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The 15th Admendment prohibits denying a citizen the right to vote based on race, color, or former slaves. This declared all men the right to vote.
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Thousands of immigrants moved to the United States from a variety of countries.
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The automobiles made transportaion alot easier in the United States, aslo Congress created cross country road.
