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One of the original 13 colonies, New York played a crucial political and strategic role during the American Revolution. Between 1892 and 1954, millions of immigrants arrived in New York Harbor and passed through Ellis Island on their journey to becoming U.S citizens.
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Taxation measure designed to raise revenues for a standing British army in America, “no taxation without representation".
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A bill designed to save the British East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a monopoly on the American tea trade.
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Located at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists were frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” They dumped 342 chests of British tea into the harbor. The event was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists
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The British regulars encountered a group of American militiamen at Lexington, and the first shots of the American Revolution were fired.
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American War of Independence, was a war between Great Britain and its Thirteen Colonies which declared independence as the United States of America.
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The 13 states set up a federal government under laws called the Articles of Confederation.
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With signing the Treaty of Paris the US became a free and independent nation
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, in Philadelphia. Fifty-five representatives attend and begin drafting the Constitution. The convention comes to a close as the representatives sign the Constitution.
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The Constitution becomes the law of the land after New Hampshire becomes the ninth and last state required to approve it.