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This was a religious revival among the colonies, which resulted in a new dedication to religion and an understanding of power was in people's hands, not the church.
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Signed to end the seven years wars, and British wins and gains control of Canada.
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War of Indepence fought between Great Britian and the 13 colonies.
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The line that was drawn to serve as a boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland. Evenually it would be the line between the North and South in the Civil War.
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Political Protest against British tax, where colonists borderd ships disguised as Indians and dumped tea overboard.
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It was approved by the Continental Congress, announcing the separation of the colonies from Great Britain and an explanation.
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The first Constitution of the United States. It was an agreement among the colonies and served as a frame of government.
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The first president of the United States and also a founding father.
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Consists of the first ten amendments in the Constitution, stating individual Americans' rights in relation to the government.
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Eli Whitney invited the cotton gin which increased the demand for slave labor and the growth of the cotton economy in the South.
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This act was enacted by Congress and gave local governments the authority to seize and return any runaway slaves who crossed into other states, back to their owners.