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New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. -
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Links
https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-massacre
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/french-indian-war#:~:text=NOTE%20TO%20READERS-,French%20and%20Indian%20War%2FSeven%20Years'%20War%2C%201754%E2%80%93,Treaty%20of%20Paris%20in%201763.
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French and Indian war
The war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. The French and Indian War ended with the Treaty of Paris. -
French and Indian war
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Stamp Act
Instead of putting a tax on trade goods, the Stamp Act imposed a direct tax on the colonists. The act required that starting in the fall of 1765, legal documents and printed materials must include a tax stamp given by elected distributors who would collect the tax in exchange for the stamp. -
The Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was a secret revolutionary organization that was founded by Samuel Adams in the Thirteen American Colonies to further the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. It played a big role in most colonies in battling the Stamp Act in 1765. -
Townshend Act of 1767
They taxed goods and imported them to the American colonies.They saw it as an abuse of power. -
Boston Massacre
A street fight that happened between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a group of British soldiers. -
Boston Tea Party
The Americans were frustrated at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts, also called Coercive Acts, in U.S. colonial history, four punitive actions enacted by the British Parliament in retaliation for acts of colonists rebellion, together with the Quebec Act establishing a new administration for the territory given to Britain after the French and Indian War -
Olive Branch Petition sent to England
The Olive Branch Petition was a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution. It was a document in which the colonists pledged their loyalty to the crown and asserted their rights as British citizens. The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5, 1775. -
common sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Colonies. Paine assembled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for a fairer government. -
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Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown was against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and 9,000 British troops. It made Washington's reputation as a great leader and as first president of the United States -
Treaty of Paris signed
The ending of the War of the American Revolution. It granted the U.S. significant western territory. -
3/5 compromise
Three-fifths compromise, an agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives. -
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Bill of Rights adopted
It is the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, confirming the fundamental rights of American citizens -
Bill of Rights adopted
