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The Great Awakening was a series of religious revivals in American Christian history. The Great Awakening contributed to colonial religious liberty by changing the balance of religious power.
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The Stono Rebellion was a slave revolt that began on September 9, 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest enslaved rebellion in the Southern Colonies, with 25 colonists and 35 to 50 Africans killed. The largest and most significant slave rebellion in the British North American colonies, the Stono Rebellion revealed tensions that continued in slave states throughout the next century.
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The Seven Years War was a conflict between France and Great Britain that lasted from 1754 to 1763. It's known as the Seven Years War because most of the fighting took place in the seven-year period between 1756 and 1765. The last major conflict before the French Revolution involved all the great powers of Europe.
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The British Parliament passed the Sugar Act in 1764. It provided for a strongly enforced tax on sugar, molasses, and other products imported into the American colonies from non-British Caribbean sources. The Stamp Act of 1797 was the first federal estate tax in the United States and was passed to help fund an undeclared war with France; it was repealed in 1802. It taxed newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dice, and playing cards.
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To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. In response to new taxes, the colonies decided to discourage the purchase of British imports.
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The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them. The Boston Massacre was a signal event leading to the Revolutionary War.
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The Tea Act was a law in 1773 giving all control of the trade and delivery of tea to the East India Tea Company. During that time, the British Parliament needed money, so the act also added a tax on tea, or money charged on each sale and given to the government. The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773 by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts.
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The Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783, ending the War of the American Revolution. The agreement recognized U.S. independence and granted the U.S. significant western territory.
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An uprising led by a former militia officer, Daniel Shays, which broke out in western Massachusetts in 1786. Shays's followers protested the stop for farms to pay debts and briefly succeeded in shutting down the court system.
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George Washington became the first president of the United States in 1789.
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John Adams became the 2nd president of the United States in 1797.