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First permanent english colony.
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The Virginia House of Burgesses was the first representative government in North America.
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The Mayflower Compact was the first written framework of government established in what is now the United States.
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The orders created an annual assembly of legislators and provided for the election of a governor.
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The French and Indian War lasted from 1756 to 1763, forming a chapter in the imperial struggle between Britain and France.
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The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years’ War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies.
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This ended the French and Indian War in 1763 and was a cause for great celebration in the colonies, for it removed several ominous barriers and opened up a host of new opportunities for the colonists.
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The currency act was a law in the parliament of Great Britain. It prohibited the issuing of paper money from the colonies and it was passed in 1764.
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The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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The Quartering Act required that the soldiers from Great Britain be housed in American barracks and public houses.
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The Townshend Revenue Act. Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were applied.
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The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.
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In 1773, a group of Massachusetts patriots, protesting the monopoly on tea importation, seized 342 chests of tea and threw them into Boston harbor.
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Tax on tea.
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Intolerable Acts, also called Coercive Acts, (1774), in U.S. colonial history, four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament.
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The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.
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The declararion of independence was written.
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The Articles of Confederation was written.
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The Battle of Yorktown in 1781 with the British, Americans and French.
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They were enforced
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The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other.
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washing becomes president
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bill of rights was writtrn
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rebellion on the tax on whiskey
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adams becomes president
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the quaisi war begins
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jefferson becomes president
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jefferson buy a large amount of land
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