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Seven Years' War
Between France and Britain for Canada: Britain won and got hold of Canada -
Stam Actp
Taxed printed documents
- but it was repealed later -
BOSTON TEA PARTY
Colonists poured the tea cargi of 3 ships into the sea
-consequence: Intorelable Acts -
First Continental Congress
-In Philadelphia
-colonists demanded the repeal of Intorelable Acts -
American Revolution started
British soldiers went to Concord and Lexington to destroy the colonists' weapons and gunpowder stored here -
Second Continental Congress
- in Philadelphia
- an American army was set up led by George Washington
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American Revolution
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Battle at New York
British victory -
Declaration of Independence
-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 -
Battle of Saratoga
American victory
-France, Spain and the Netherlands promised help to the Americans -
Articles of Confederation
-at the Second Continental Congress
-league among the colonies -
Battle at Yorktown, Virginia
Final American victory -
Treaty of Paris
Britain recognized the independence of the 13 American colonies -
Constitutional Convection
Worked out the Constitution of the US -
1st President
George Washington became the 1st President of the US -
Bill of Rights
-the first 10 amendments of the Constitution
-guaranteed freedom of religion, speech, assembly, the press -
Missouri Compromise
-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 -
Monroe Doctrine
-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 -
Democratic Party
represented the interests of the middle class -
Gold fever
gold was found in California -
Republican Party
its main aim was to restrict the spread of slavery -
Nebraska and Kansas
these two states didn't keep the Missouri Compromise and held referendums to decide about the question of slavery -
Civil War broke out
-Abraham Lincoln became the President
-the American Civil War broke out -
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The American Civil War
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Homestead Act
American settlers could buy lands at a very cheap price
-Liincoln's popularity increased by thy Act -
Emancipation Proclamation
from the 1st January 1863 all slaves were to be free if they lived in the states of the Confederacy -
Battl eof Gettysburg
-northern victory
-Union armies penetrated into the southern territories -
Northern Victory
the southern armies became exhausted and put down their arms -
segregation
segregation was introduced in the southern states