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Treaty of Paris
Ended the French and indian war -
Stamp Act
imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Declaration of Independence
announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire -
Articles of Confederation
was the first law of the u.s. and was later replaced by the constitution -
Treaty of Paris
formally ended the American Revolutionary War between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America, -
Constitution
It is a document designed to protect our freedom by imposing law on those who wield political power. Without such law, Americans would be under the constant threat of tyranny. -
Nullification Crisis
that the federal Tariff of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina. -
Fort Sumter
(April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. -
Emancipation Proclamation
declared all slaves free and equal by abraham lincon -
Gettysburg Address
turning point of the Civil War.[2] The battle also had a major impact on the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, which numbered only 2,400 inhabitants.[3] The battlefield was left with the bodies of more than 7,500 soldiers and 5,000 horses[4] of the Army of the Potomac and the Confederacy's Army of Northern Virginia, and the stench of rotting bodies in the humid July air was overpowering.[5]
