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Between France and Britain for Canada: Britain won and got hold of Canada
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Taxed printed documents
- but it was repealed later -
Colonists poured the tea cargi of 3 ships into the sea
-consequence: Intorelable Acts -
-In Philadelphia
-colonists demanded the repeal of Intorelable Acts -
British soldiers went to Concord and Lexington to destroy the colonists' weapons and gunpowder stored here
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- in Philadelphia
- an American army was set up led by George Washington
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British victory
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-written by Thomas Jefferson
-declared that the colonies became free and independent states
-sovereignty of people: if the government rules without the consent of the people, the people have the right to overthrow it -
American victory
-France, Spain and the Netherlands promised help to the Americans -
-at the Second Continental Congress
-league among the colonies -
Final American victory
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Britain recognized the independence of the 13 American colonies
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Worked out the Constitution of the US
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George Washington became the 1st President of the US
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-the first 10 amendments of the Constitution
-guaranteed freedom of religion, speech, assembly, the press -
-slavery would be allowed south of latitude 36 degrees 30'
-north of that slavery would be forbidden
-except in the state of Missouri
-new states could be added to the US in pairs: one slave-holding and one none-slave-holding -
-worked out by President Monroe
-it stated that the Americans would no longer be open to colonization by any European power, any country that tried to interfere in the affairs of America would be considered the enemy of the US -
represented the interests of the middle class
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gold was found in California
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its main aim was to restrict the spread of slavery
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these two states didn't keep the Missouri Compromise and held referendums to decide about the question of slavery
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-Abraham Lincoln became the President
-the American Civil War broke out -
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American settlers could buy lands at a very cheap price
-Liincoln's popularity increased by thy Act -
from the 1st January 1863 all slaves were to be free if they lived in the states of the Confederacy
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-northern victory
-Union armies penetrated into the southern territories -
the southern armies became exhausted and put down their arms
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segregation was introduced in the southern states