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Carolina fights against their trading partners, the Yamasee Indians.
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War hero and first U.S. President, George Washington is born.
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A purchase of land by colonial leaders in Pennsylvania that swindled the Delaware Indians out of a lot of land. The purchase was settled on the rules that whatever distance a person could walk in the territory in a day and a half would be the amount sold. Said leaders sent the fastest walkers in the colonies on a cleared path to ensure the greatest amount of land was secured.
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War between the English and her colonies against the French and the Indians begins. (Seven Year's War)
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Washington's first battle and loss in war.
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This treaty ended the French and Indian War. (Yes, this is the name of a later treaty that also ended the American Revolutionary War, too.)
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Widely hated tax on paper. One of the acts that led to the American Revolutionary War.
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American colonists signed this important document declaring independence from the British Empire.
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Important victory for the Americans in the Revolutionary War.
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Eli Whitney creates the incredibly important cotton gin, which revolutionized the cotton industry.