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- To impose control and help defray the cost of keeping troops in America to control the colonists
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In 1774, the British Parliament passed a series of laws collectively known as the Intolerable Acts
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By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776
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On September 28, 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown
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British and American negotiators in Paris signed preliminary peace terms in Paris late that November, and on September 3, 1783, Great Britain formally recognized the independence of the United States in the Treaty of Paris.
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The 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia originally met in order to reform the Articles of Confederation under which the United States government at the time operated
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The French Revolution began in 1789 and lasted until 1794
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The industrial revolution ended