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The Yamasee War was a conflict fought in South Carolina from 1715–1717 between British settlers from the Province of Carolina and the Yamasee and a number of other allied Native American peoples, including the Muscogee, Cherokee, Catawba, Apalachee, Apalachicola, Yuchi, Savannah River Shawnee, Congaree, Waxhaw, Pee Dee, Cape Fear, Cheraw, and others.
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Britain passes the Stamp Act, imposing a tax on legal documents, newspapers, even playing cards.
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British troops land in Boston to enforce the Townshend duties (taxes on paint, paper, tea, etc., passed in June 1767) and clamp down on local radicals.
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Committees of Correspondence are established throughout the colonies to coordinate American response to British colonial policy. This represents an important move toward cooperation, mutual action, and the development of a national identity among Americans.
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The first shots of the Revolutionary War are fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts
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The Treaty of Paris ratifies the independence of the 13 North American states.
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A convention of states in Philadelphia proposes the Constitution to replace the much looser central government operating under the Articles of Confederation
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George Washington