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Navigation Acts
Increased by taxing the goods going to and from British colonies, thought colonists should pay some of the war expenses -
French and Indian War ends
- Also known as the 7 year war where England won against France and the Native Americans. British treasury drained.
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Stamp Act
- Added a tax on all paper documents, this came from Britain because they were in debt from the seven year war.
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Boston Massacre
- Between American colonists and a British soldier turned into a bloody slaughter that started the American Revolution
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Tea Act
People thought the tea act was just to gain support for the tax. Yea act cut out colonial merchants -
Boston Tea Party
Angry colonists at Britain dumped 342 chests of tea in the harbor. This act showed that Americans didn't take the taxations and fought for independence. -
Coercive/Intolerance Acts
This was to punish the Massachusetts for the Boston Tea party -
First Continental Congress
A meeting from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the U.S. this was the reaction to the Coercive Acts -
Lexington and Concord
- The 13 colonies won their independence from Britain. After people dumped the tea overboard the British parliament said that Massachusetts was in open rebellion.
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Second Continental Congress
United the American Revolutionary War -
Battle of Saratoga
- during the American revolution included two battles 18 days apart victory for America from British general John Burgoyne's attempt to control the Hudson River.
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Winter at Valley Forge
A trial for the American army, and of the 11,000 soldiers stationed at valley forge, hundreds died from disease -
Battle of Yorktown
Last major battle of the American Revolution -
U.S. Constitution Written
- 55 delegates to a constitutional convention that was called "ostensibly to amend the articles of confederation" from 12 colonies.
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U.S. Constitution adopted
- The U.S. Constitution was born in 1787 but didn't get adopted by 1788 when New Hampshire became the ninth state to approve the constitution.