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Them constitutional congress signed a document that stated that the 13 colonies are independent states no longer ruled by Britain
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After French assistance the continental army forced British Army to surrender in Yorktown Virginia formally winning their independence.
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Great Britian officialy recognized the existence of the independence of the United States.
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The Creek Indians sin a traetythat said they surrender their land northeast off the Oconee River but retain the territory southeast of the river.
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Provided a mechanism that allowed slave owners to retrieve run away slaves from free northern states.
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the cotton gin greatly increased the production of cotton which was supposed to decrease the number of slaves. However southern farmers became even more dependent on slaves.
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America signed a treaty with France stating that France sold the Louisiana Territory for $15 million.
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An amendment that said everything above the 36°30' parrelel would be free states, and every state below would allow slavery.
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Widespread movement for egalitarianism among white men in the 1820's and 1830's named after andrew Jackson.
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The United States passed a joint resolution extending an offer of annexation to the Republic of Texas, which Texas accepted becoming part of the United States.
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The people of South Carolina gathered together and declared that the frquent violation of the constitution gave the people of South Carolina the right to secesed from the union.
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Kansas and Nebraska would be created from the region under the principal of popular sovereignty, which is that the states would choose whether it would be a slave state or a free state.
