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  Jefferson and some others wrote the declaration of independence that officially isolated them from Britain.
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  A small, important battle during the revolutionary war between America and Britain.
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  people released all their slaves and let them live normally, and have them fight in the war.
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  British soldiers invaded and took over Philadelphia.
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  The highpoint of the saratoga campaign marking the victory of America.
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  the individual laws and features of each individual state.
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  the articles of confederation were a set of rules for America to follow, these rules gave most power to the people instead of the governmen
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  the continental congress no longer allowed slaves to come to the US as a product.
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  valley forge was a camp for American soldiers during the war, and during their winter in valley forge, many died from malnourishment or disease.
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  john paul jones lead an American navy and beat the British.
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  Spain declared war with Britain and made an alliance with America.
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  Britain was victorious and took over Charles town during the American revolution.
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  the British surrendered during the American Revolution in Yorktown.
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  the civil war was taking a lot of money so they needed to try and give taxes to the states, they then repealed it in 1872.
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  the civil war was taking a lot of money so they needed to try and give taxes to the states, they then repealed it in 1872.
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  the peace treaty between Britain and America.
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  Spain stopped them from traveling through there so western states got mad and threatened to declare war.
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  made it so people could buy farmland in the undeveloped west.
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  applied a government to the northwest and made it so they could admit new states of territory and gave them certain laws.
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  an uprising in Massachusetts between the state government and the people of the state because the state government was trying to get them to pay taxes.
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  a meeting where people discussed all the problems with the Articles of Confederation.
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  all but Rhode island singed the constitution of independence.
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  Delaware was the first state of many to say yes to the new constitution that would, later on, become the set of laws to govern them
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  as the ninth state to sign the Constitution they caused the Articles of Confederation to go away and the Constitution to kick in
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  later, after the ordinance of 1875, they raised the price to two dollars, and you could pay half upfront, and pay the rest off over a span of four years.