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Charles Montesquieu's birth
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Sam Adams birth
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John Hancock birth date
January 23, 1737, -
Benedict Arnold birth date
January 14, 1741 -
Tomas Jefferson
April 13, 1743 -
French and native American war
The French and Native American war started in 1754, and ended in 1763. -
Alexander Hamilton birth date
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Proclamation of 1763
Proclamation of 1763 was a British produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. The Proclamation Line prohibited colonists from building on land acquired from the French following the French and Native American War. -
Boston Massacre
March 5, 1770 -
Boston tea party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor -
First Continental Congress
September 5, 1774 -
"Give me liberty, or give me death" speech date
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Battle of Lexington
The Battles of Lexington and Concord signaled the start of the American Revolutionary war. The British Army set out from Boston to capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington and destroy the Americans store of weapons and ammunition in Concord. -
Battle of Bunker hill
June 17, 1775 -
signing of the American declaration of independence
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battle of saratoga
September 19, 1777 -
Articles of Confederation
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battle of Yorktown
September 28, 1781 – October 19, 1781 -
Signing of the US constitution
The Constitution is the supreme law of the US. It originally had 7 articles that made the base of the government. -
Treaty of Paris
December 10, 1898