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Martha was the wife of George Washington, who was the first president of the United States, she was married before Washington. She got great wealth with marrying Wahington. Martha and George married on Jan 6, 1759.
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The kingdoms of France, Spain, Great Britain, and Portugal agreed on a Peace Treaty, also known as the Peace of Paris.
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Overall timespan (not exact time of the war)
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A proclamation was established at the end of the French and Indian War, it defined four new colonies.
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They were an organization of American patriots that originated in the North American British colonies. They were formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to take to the streets to fight againts the abuses of the British government.
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An act for granting and applying certain stamp duties and other duties, in British colonies and plantations in America. It was to protect and defend and secure several acts of the Parliment of trade.
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The first quartering act provided that Great Britain may house their soldiers in American barracks and houses.
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He was the second President of the United States and he was an American founding Father. He was married to Abigail Adams.
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An act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America.
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A street fight between a "patriot" mob and a squad of British soldiers. The patriots were throwing snow balls, stones, and sticks while teh British soldiers were highly armed and started shooting into the crowd. Several "patriots" died.
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Three ships carrying tea entered the Boston Harbor before the tax could be collected, radical townspeople took action. Disguised as Native Americans they tossed 342 chests of tea into the water.
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They were a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament relating to Massachusetts after their Boston Tea Party. MA lost their self-government and historic rights.
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All colonial states except for Georgia sent delegates to seek resolution with England.
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American colonists that remained lolay to the king of Great Britain.
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He was an English-American political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary. He emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774
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He was a political leader in the Revolutionary war and a signer of the Decleration of Independence.
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He was a patriot in the American Revolution and he was a silversmith, and industrialist.
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The shot heard around the world. Minutemen fought th great British army. The minutemen were ready at a minute's notice. Thus, their name.
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They were rebels , revolutionaries, loyalists, and they rebeled againts Britain.
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The declaration announced that the 13 colonial Anerican states were now independent after the war with Great Britain.
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Hessians were soilders who were under contract for service for the British Empire. The soilders were mostly German. They landed in New York on August 15, 1776
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A turning point for American colonial states. The British surrendered to the colonial states.
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He was a general during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental Army but defected to the British Army. In 1780 he was commissioned into the British Army as a brigadier general.
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George Washington had 17,000 troops and the British had 9,000 troops. It was the most important battle that the colonial Americans had won.
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He was an American founding father, the principle author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third president of the United States. His wife died in 1782
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This treaty ended the revolutionary war. The treaty was signed in Paris.
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He was a British Army officer and colonial administer. He is remembered as one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence. In 1786 he was appointed to be the Governer General and commander-in-chief in India.
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He was the first President of the United States and he was the commander-in-chief of the army in the colonial states during the Revolutionary War. He is also one of the founding fathers of the United States. He started his turn in office on April 30th, 1789.
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She was the wife of John Adams the first vice president and second president of the United Stated. She was also the mother of John Quincy Adams.
