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The Colonial House of Burgess passes the first comprehensive slave code.
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The Great Awakening was a Christian revival that spread Christianity all across America.
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The French and Indian war, also known as the seven years war, started when British and American soldiers killed a French diplomat.
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Pontiac's War was instigated by a Native American Leader by the name of Pontiac. He was inspired to fight the colonists by a religious leader named Nolin, who told him the natives needed to cast out the Europeans from America. The fighting broke out when Pontiac laid siege to a European fort. The siege inspired other Natives to become hostile and increased Native-colonist tension.
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The British imposed the sugar act in 1764 in an attempt to better regulate American trade. They followed the sugar act with the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts.
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British troops open fire into a mob of colonists, killing five men.
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A group of colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians snuck aboard three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped over 300 crates of imported tea into the harbor to protest the British tea tax.
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The First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia with delegates from every colony except Georgia.
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British regiments set out to seize local militias’ arms and powder stores in Lexington and Concord. The Militia met with them and fired on the British.
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The Continental Congress declares independence from Britain. The declaration was written by Thomas Jefferson and edited by Jhon Adams and Benjamin Franklin before appearing before the whole Congress for final editing.
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The Revolutionary war ended after peace negotiations in France.
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The Constitutional Convention meets from May to September to draft the U.S. Constitution.
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George Washington is elected the first president of the new United States.
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John Adams, the second President of the United States, is elected.