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The first Great Awakening happens, shaping Christianity into the form that we see it in today.
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This war was one of the first French and Indian War fought in colonial North America
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A more serious conflict in which Anglo colonists in North America fought against an alliance of Native Americans and the French
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This war was initiated by a group of Native American tribes in the Great Lakes region who were dissatisfied with the English rule and wished to rid the region of the English. It ended in their defeat.
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The signing of this treaty ended both the Seven Years war and the French and Indian War.
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A deadly riot in which the British soldiers opened fire on a group of unarmed protesters in the streets of Boston.
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The First Continental Congress convenes.
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The First Continental Congress convenes.
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Unhappy with the English's tea taxes, colonists dresses as feather Indians bordered English cargo ships holding tea and dumped it into the bay.
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This Battle between colonists militia and British soldiers officially kicks off the Revolutionary War
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A defeat for the colonists as they were sieged by the British from the sea.
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The Declaration of Independence is signed and the United States declares itself a free nation, cutting all ties with England.
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After not receiving any reinforcements, the British were handed a decisive defeat that likely had a large impact on the outcome of the war.
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The Articles of Confederation are instated as the first supreme law of the land in the United States.
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A campaign by the French and Americans where the British were trapped in the fort of Yorktown and forced to surrender.
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Convention at which the Founding Fathers deliberated over the contents of the United States Constitution.
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George Washington is elected as the first president of the United States.
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The Second Great Awakening begins in the United States and last for the next couple decades.
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The Bill of Rights is enacts, giving us our first couple of amendments to the Constitution
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John Adams elected as the second president of the United States.