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boston massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British soldiers on March 5, 1770. It was the pinnacle of tension in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
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from 1770-1865 in the U.S.
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boston tea party
On December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This resulted in the passage of the Coercive Acts in 1774.Also adding tension between both sides. -
american revolution
The American Revolution is also known as the American Revolutionary War and the U.S. War of Independence. The conflict became from growing tensions between the people of Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies and the colonial government, which represented the British monarch. Problems between British troops and colonial militiamen in Lexington and Concord in April 1775 kicked off the armed conflict, and by the following summer, the rebels were waging a full-scale war for their independence. -
declaration of independence
Mostly writen by Thomas Jeffesron, the declaration of independence was writen to let the british monarch know the americans intentions of leaving british rule to become independent. -
louisiana purchase
In the year 1803 president Thomas Jefferson bought the louisiana territory from france for 15 million dollars which doubled the size on the U.S. addinfg nearly 800,000 square miles of land to the U.S. -
war of 1812
In the War of 1812, the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world, Great Britain. Causes of the war included British attempts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy’s impressment of American seamen and America’s desire to expand its territory.The ratification of the Treaty of Ghent on February 17, 1815, ended the war. -
trail of tears
In 1838 and 1839, because ofAndrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. -
civil war
A war that at first the only concern of president abraham lincoln was to keep the union together later figuring out that it was about slavery and it had to end. this war resulted in the lives of 600,000 dead and millions more injured. -
dred scott decision
dred scott decision was a supreme court case that denied slaves rights and freedoms after dred scott sued his owner for freedom leading to the ruling that the mossouri was unconstitutional. -
lee surrenders
On April 9, 1865 Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, surrendered his Confederate forces to Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army. this resulted in the end of the civil war.
