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FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
The French and Indian War (1754–1763) is the American name for the North American theater of the Seven Years' War. The war was fought primarily between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France. In 1756, the war escalated from a regional affair into a world-wide conflict. -
TOWNSEND ACT
Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were applied with the design of raising £40,000 a year for the administration of the colonies. The result was the resurrection of colonial hostilities created by the Stamp Act -
SUGAR ACT
On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire -
STAMP ACT
The Stamp Act was Parliament's first serious attempt to assert governmental authority over the colonies. -
THE BOSTON MASSACRE
It was the culmination of tensions 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. -
TEA ACT
The Tea Act was an act to help West India who were in a famine and war. -
BOSTON TEA PARTY
Few people realize that when the tea went overboard in Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, the War for Independence was actually beginning. -
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Revolution
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FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
he first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774. Carpenter's Hall was also the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates. These were elected by the people, by the colonial legislatures, or by the committees of correspondence of the respective colonies. The colonies presented there were united in a determination to show a combined authority to Great Britain, but their aims were not AT AIM -
LEXINGTON AND CONCORD AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat column. A confrontation on the Lexington town green started off the fighting, and soon the British were hastily retreating under intense fire. Many more battles followed, and in 1783 the colonists formally won their independence. -
SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
Times had taken a sharp turn for the worse. Lexington and Concord had changed everything. When the Redcoats fired into the Boston crowd in 1775, the benefit of the doubt was granted. Now the professional imperial army was attempting to arrest patriot leaders, and minutemen had been killed in their defense. In May 1775, with Redcoats once again storming Boston, the Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia. -
Declaration Of Independence
The declaration of independence is the symbol of liberty and freedom. -
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VALLEY FORGE
Valley Forge in Pennsylvania was the site of the military camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777–1778 during the American Revolutionary War. -
U.S. CONSTITUTION
OUR RIGHTS. -
ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
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BATTLE OF YORKTOWN
On this day in 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War. -
TREATY OF PARIS
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BILL OF RIGHTS
THE FIRST 10 AMENDMENTS OF THE U.S CONSTITUTION
