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The French and Indian War started over the issue of whether the upper Ohio River valley was a part of the British land
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The Sons of Liberty was a loosely organized under-the-table political organization involved in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to further the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. -
the act required the colonists to pay a tax, which it called the stamp act. it was a direct tax imposed by the British government, with the colonial knowing. which cause violets to the British tax collect.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament that taxed goods brought in to the American colonies -
was a riot deadly that occurred on the street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic energized. https://www.history.com/ -
The Boston Tea party was a political protest that occurred in griffin wharf in Boston, the colonists were frustrated and angry at the Britain for imposing "taxation without representation" which this make the first major event that the British rule over the colonists.
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The British could tolerate strongly worded letters or trade boycotts. They could put up with defiant legislatures and harassed customs officials to an extent. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord showed the start of the American Revolutionary war. The British Army left Boston to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington as well as to destroy the Americans store of weapons and ammunition in Concord. -
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution. -
the French fleet commanded by Francois, Count de Grasse, departed St. Domingue (the then-French colony that is now Haiti) for the Chesapeake Bay, just as Cornwallis chose Yorktown, at the mouth of the Chesapeake, as his base. Washington realized that it was time to act. He ordered Marquis de Lafayette and an American army of 5,000 troops to block Cornwallis’ escape from Yorktown by land while the French naval fleet blocked the British escape by sea.
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The American Revolution officially comes to an end when representatives of the United States, Great Britain, Spain and France sign the Treaty of Paris. The signing signified America’s status as a free nation, as Britain formally recognized the independence of its 13 former American colonies, and the boundaries of the new republic were agreed upon: Florida north to the Great Lakes and the Atlantic coast west to the Mississippi River. -
The Great Compromise made two legislative bodies in Congress.
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That document was tailored to a newly formed nation made of states acting more like independent, sovereign countries, and it quickly became clear to some of America’s leaders that future stability required a stronger, more centralized government. -
The House passed a joint resolution containing 17 amendments based on Madison's proposal. Washington sent copies of the 12 amendments adopted by Congress to the states. three-fourths of the states had approved 10 of these, now known as the “Bill of Rights".
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