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The Peace of Utrecht was a series of peace treaties signed by the belligerents in the War of the Spanish Succession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht -
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The trial of John Peter Zenger (1697–1746) was one of the most important events in shaping American thinking toward freedom of speech.
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he French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. -
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ensions began to grow, and in Boston in February 1770 a patriot mob attacked a British loyalist, who fired a gun at them, killing a boy. In the ensuing days brawls between colonists and British soldiers eventually culminated in the Boston Massacre. -
On the ground, fighting in the American Revolution began with the skirmishes between British regulars and American provincials on April 19, 1775, first at Lexington, where a British force of 700 faced 77 local minutemen, and then at Concord, where an American counterforce of 320 to 400 sent the British scurrying. -
The Declaration of Independence is a document that officially records the proclamation that the United States is an independent country from Great Britain. -
October 7, 1777 - The Battle of Saratoga results in the first major American victory of the Revolutionary War as Gen. Horatio Gates and Gen. Benedict Arnold defeat Gen. Burgoyne, inflicting 600 British casualties. -
France entered the American Revolution on the side of the colonists in 1778, turning what had essentially been a civil war into an international conflict.
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A Patriot militia decisively defeats and scatters a Loyalist militia that was on its way to British-controlled Augusta, Georgia. -
British Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton and his army of 10,000 at Charleston, South Carolina. -
John Adams, the first American ambassador to Great Britain, has his first meeting with King George III at the Court of St James's. July 6 – The United States dollar is unanimously chosen as the country's money unit, the first time a nation has adopted a decimal currency.
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On September 25, 1789, after several months of debate, the first Congress of the United States adopted 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution—the Bill of Rights—and sent them to the states for ratification.
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resident George Washington delivers the first "State of the Union Address" on January 8, 1790. Benjamin Franklin dies on April 17, 1790 in Philadelphia, PA. Washington, DC, is established as the capital of the United States, in 1791. -
June 8 – George Washington submits the Jay Treaty to the United States Senate for ratification. August 2 – The Treaty of Greenville is signed between the Western Confederacy and the United States, ending the Northwest Indian War. -
In the 1800s, America grew very fast. In 1803, the United States bought the Louisiana Territory from France.