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The English and French began their final squabble over eastern North America. Then the British commandingly defeat the French.
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The British troops shot into a group of colonists, killing five men.
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It was a protest by the Sons of Liberty to show the Acts forced on the colonists were wrong. So they dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.
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56 representatives from all colonies, except Georgia, meet for the first time.
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The war between the 13 American colonies and Great Britain for the Colonies' independence.
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The first battle of the American Revolution.
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This is when our founding fathers published the single most significant document in America's history.
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This is the creation of the first constitution.
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The Continental army spends the weary winter in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
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When General Cornwallis surrenders to General George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia
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It's a protest by farmers who took up arms to fight high tariffs.
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The Constitutional Convention made up of delegates from 12 of the original 13 colonies, drafted the Constitution.
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George Washington is unanimously elected president of the United States in a vote by state electors.
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U.S. Supreme Court meets for the first time at the Merchants Exchange Building in New York City.
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First, ten amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, are ratified.
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Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin greatly increases the demand for slave labor.
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John Adams is inaugurated as the second president in Philadelphia.
