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The Great Awakening was a series of religious revivals in the North American British colonies during the 17th and 18th Centuries. During these "awakenings," a great many colonists found new meaning in the religions of the day.
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Britain and France had colonies in North America. The British wanted to settle in the Ohio River Valley and to trade with the Native Americans who lived there. The French built forts to protect their trade with the Indians. In 1754, George Washington led an army against the French.
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Known as the Incident on King Street British Army soldiers shot and killed five people while under attack by a mob.
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Apolitical protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of British tea into the harbor.
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The United States Declaration of Independence is to announce and explain separation from Great Britain
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It was a turning point in the revolutionary war, surprise attack that restored faith in the cause.
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Victory of the Americans over the British in the American Revolution.
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The Treaty of Paris was signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ending the American Revolutionary War.
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The Constitution was written during the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by 55 delegates to a Constitutional Convention that was called ostensibly to amend the Articles of Confederation. It was the country's first written constitution.
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