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Evangelical Revival
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Global War involving Europe
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Ended the 7 Years' War
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Parliament passed the stamp act, a tax collected on newspapers and legal documents.
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Groups formed to organize further resistance.
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British troops fire on crowd killing 5.
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342 chests of tea dumped into Griffin's Wharf, Boston.
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Meeting of 12 delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies.
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Common Sense was a pamphlet urging the colonies to fight for independence from Britain.
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Daniel Shay's armed protest of increasing debt and collection of taxes.
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The gathering of leaders in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia with the goal to decide how the new nation would be governed.
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The majority voted for the Constitution, and it was now in effect.
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Having won the electoral vote on April 6, 1788, George Washington becomes the first President of the United States.
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The French Revolution ends with the rise of Napoleon.
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The Whiskey Rebellion was a protest of the taxes levied on whiskey.
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Congress approves the first national bank.
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The first 10 amendments to the Constitution aimed at limiting governmental control.
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.
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John Adams passed the Alien and Sedition Acts which limited freedom of speech and made it easier to deport immigrants and limit their vote.
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The Virginia Resolution stated the Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional.
