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the French vs Indian war was a north american conflict between great britain and france, with both nations vying for control of the Ohio River Valley. The war took over 7 years and probably even longer. At the end the British got the river and won the war. -
The First Continental Congress was a gathering of peoples from twelve of the thirteen American colonies. it was mainly about the British attacks on them. This was before they won and claimed America. -
The Townshend Acts of 1767 were British laws that placed taxes on goods imported into the American colonies. This was the tax before the colonies had enough and stood up. Because of this tax its mainly the reason why America is how it is today (we fought the British).
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The Battle of Trenton, fought on December 26, 1776, was a crucial American victory in the Revolutionary War, driven by a need to boost morale and reinvigorate the Continental Army -
The Battle of Yorktown, a decisive moment in the American Revolutionary War, was a result of a carefully coordinated plan by American and French forces to trap and defeat British General Cornwallis's army -
The Boston Tea Party, a pivotal event leading up to the American Revolution, was not a sudden outburst but rather the culmination of years of escalating tensions and disagreements between Great Britain and its American colonies. -
Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," published in 1776, argued for American independence from British rule by presenting logical and emotional appeals to the colonists. It -
The Bill of Rights was adopted as the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution on December 15, 1791, after being ratified by the necessary three-fourths of the states. This followed a period of debate and proposal by the First Federal Congress, which had sent 12 proposed amendments to the states for ratification. -
he Battle of Camden, fought on August 16, 1780, in South Carolina, was a decisive victory for the British due to a combination of factors including Cornwallis's strategic decision to defend Camden, his advantageous positioning, and the American commander Gates's tactical errors. -
The US Constitution was ratified through a process that bypassed state legislatures and involved special state conventions elected to vote on the document. -
The Olive Branch Petition was a document adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, and sent to King George III in a final attempt to avert war with Great Britain -
The Treaty of Paris, signed in 1783, officially ended the American Revolutionary War and recognized the United States as an independent nation. -
The "Intolerable Acts," also known as the Coercive Acts, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party and to reassert British authority over the colonies -
The Intolerable Acts, also known as the Coercive Acts, were a series of punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament in 1774 in response to escalating colonial defiance, particularly the Boston Tea Party. -
The Boston Massacre, which occurred on March 5, 1770, was the culmination of escalating tensions between British soldiers and American colonists in Boston.