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Ends French and Indian war
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Keeps colonists from going past the Appalachian Mountains.
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Numerous acts to raise prices on goods to pay debts. Includes the Sugar Act.
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Taxation without representation was first discussed and a call for the colonies to unite.
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First direct tax on colonies.
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Colonies have to provide places to stay for British troops.
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All business virtually stops because colonies refuse to use the stamps.
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Replaced with Declaratory Act which allows the British governement to legislate any laws of the colonies without restriction.
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More taxes, more enforcement.
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There to enforce custom laws.
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Kills five colonist and is used as propaganda against British military.
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Import tax on tea.
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Boston activists dressed as Mohawk Indians dump tea in the harbor.
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The "shot heard around the world" started the American Revolution. Shot by an unmaned musket, eight Americans lay dead, and eleven injured. Only one British man got hurt.
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This was the first major battle for independence. The Americans won with only 367 deaths, while the British had an overwhelming 1,054
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"Common Sense" was published anonymously this day.
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On this day in hstory, our country became free from the grasp of Britain.
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Made a boost to the American morale.
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Because their supply was cut off by French Navy, the British surrendered 5,700 troops to an American victory. This was a major turning point in the war.
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The British soldiers under Cornwallis surrendered to the Americans at Yorktown.
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This formally ended the American Revoltuion, and the US was a seperate piece form the British now.
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Shay's Rebellion is a timespan where farmers rebelled against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgements for debt
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All of the states got together to form the constitutuion
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Four months after the Constitutional Convention, the Constitutuion was finally ratified.
