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In the early 1750s, France's expansion into the Ohio River valley repeatedly brought it into conflict with the claims of the British colonies, especially Virginia
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The Stamp Act of 1765 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America
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The Sons of Liberty was a secret revolutionary organization that was founded by Samuel Adams
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The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies
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Prior to the Boston Massacre the British had instituted a number of new taxes on the American colonies
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The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts
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The Intolerable Acts consisted of a number of measures meant to punish the port of Boston and the people of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea party
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
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The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence occurred primarily on August 2, 1776 at the Pennsylvania State House
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General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown
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The Great Compromise was forged in a heated dispute during the 1787 Constitutional Convention
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The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion, speech, and the press, the rights of peaceful assembly and petition
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The Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783, ending the War of the American Revolution
