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Navigation Acts were a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between every country except Britain. This ended 200 years later.
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King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death.
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The French and Indian War was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War.
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The Stamp Act gave the colonists a target for their rage. Indeed, the Sons of Liberty was formed in response to this Act. The Stamp Act Congress also gave the colonists a model for the Continental Congress.
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Angry and frustrated at a new tax on tea.
Native Americans boarded three British ships. -
Famous silversmith who rode through the countryside to warn the American colonists that the British were coming
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This was after the battles at Lexington and Concord on April 19th. Sam Adams, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, and George Washington were some of the delegates.
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The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Document detailing our form of government. Ratified by a majority of states and declared in effect in 1787.
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Bill of Rights and the Amendments to The Constitution. The Ten Original Amendments: The Bill of Rights. Passed by Congres
