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The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the seven year war. -
passed stamp act which sought to raise money to pay for this army through a tax on all legal and official papers and publications circulating in the colonies. -
a well-organized Patriot paramilitary political organization & they remained an active pre- Revolutionary force against the crown -
arguing that the British Parliament did not have the right to tax them because they lacked representation in the legislative body -
on march 5 1770 seven British solider fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians killing five wounding another six and angering an entire colony -
to protest British Parliament's tax on a tea no taxation without representation The demonstrators boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea in the boston habor -
The Coercive Acts of 1774 known as the Intolerable Acts in the Americans colonies were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish . -
The voice turned a colonial revolt against British policy into a fight for political independence Lexington and Concord led many Americans to support the revolution -
It was one of the bloodiest battle of the American Revolution & The defenders had run out ammunition reducing the battle to close combat. -
Adopted by the Continental congress on November 15 1777, and ratified by the states in 1781 the Articles of confederation -
south Carolina Aug 16 1780 The Battle of Camden was one several devasting defeats suffered by the Americans in the early stages of the British -
Virginia sep 28 0ct 28 The Battle of Yorktown proved to be the decisive engagement of the American Revolution The British surrender forecast the end of British rule in the colonies -
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian WAR/SEVEN years war between Great Britain and France as well as their respective allies -
a convention of delegates from all the states except Rhode island met in Philadelphia Pennsylvanian in may of 1787 known as the constitutional Convention at this meeting -
when they couldn't decide on how representation should be accounted for in the new country , they decide to accept the great compromise as a solution -
Broad public fears that a new national government might run roughshod over individuals & amendments adopted by Congress to the states. By December 15 1791