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The war took place from 1701 to 1715. This war was a great European power conflict after king Charles I died.
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The Seven Year's war is also known as the French and Indian war. The war went from 1756 to 1763. The conflict started with frontier clashes in America in 1754, sparked by French and British competition for the Indian lands in the vast Ohio River Valley.
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The Industrial Revolution began 1760 and continued through the 19th century. During this revolution agriculture societies became more industrialized. Railroad, cotton gin, and electricity were created to advance to world.
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James Watt was a Scottish inventor that created the steam engine. The steam engine made travel faster and easier.
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The presence of British soldiers had become a constant source of irritation. May 5, 1770, two dozen "saucy" Boston rowdies, teens, Irishmen, and sailors began throwing icicles and oyster shells at young soldiers. Soldiers came to help and lots of people died.
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The Boston Tea Party was a protest against the British because of the taxes they put on tea. East India Company had 17 million pounds of Asian tea that they couldn't sell because of the tax.
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The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4th, 1776 written by Jefferson in Philadelphia. The Declaration was written to give people their unalienable rights life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
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For the American army at Valley Forge, near Philadelphia, the winter of 1777–1778 was a time of intense suffering. Keeping his ragtag army intact and preserving morale was George Washington’s greatest leadership test.
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The climactic Battle of Yorktown began on September 28. The American and French troops closed off Cornwallis’s last escape route and began bombarding the British with cannons. Cornwallis held out for three grim weeks, but on October 17, 1781—the anniversary of the American victory at Saratoga—he surrendered. Two days later, some 7,000 British soldiers laid down their weapons as the military band played “The World Turned Upside Down.”
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The French Revolution captured the imagination of many Americans, especially Jefferson and the Democratic Republicans, as royal tyranny was displaced by a democratic republic that gave voting rights to all adult men regardless of how much property they owned. Americans formed forty-two Democratic-Republican clubs that hosted rallies on behalf of the French Revolution.