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Jamestown was the first permanet english colony in the new world.
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The Virginia House of Burgesses was the first legislature in the new colonies. It was located in Virginia.
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The Mayflower Compact was the first written government established in the new world aka the United States.
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The Fundamental Orders of Conneticut was the first written document in North America.
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The French and Indian war was a seven year war, it was the beginning of open hostilities between the colonies and Britain.
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The seven year war between a bunch of countrys finally ends.
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The Treaty of paris ended the revolutionary war, and it also recognized American independence.
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The proclamation, in effect, closed off the frontier to colonial expansion.
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The Currency Act wouldnt allow new bills to be made, and it was supposed to help the shortage of currency.
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The Stamp Act was passed to make the colonies pay a tax, which would help England try an get out of debt after the seven year war.
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The Quartering Act stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses.
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The Townshend Act put taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea. It was soon appiled.
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In the Boston Massacre 5 guys were shot, one of them was african American, this is what helpped lead up to the war against England.
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a group of Massachusetts Patriots, protesting the monopoly on American tea, seized 342 chests of tea in a midnight raid on three tea ships and threw them into the harbor.
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The act's main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out the floundering East India Company, but of course we went all crazy about it.
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four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament in retaliation for acts of colonial defiance.
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The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia,Carpenter's Hall was also the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress.These were elected by the people, by the colonial legislatures.
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Britain's General Gage had a secret plan.
During the wee hours of April 19, 1775, he would send out regiments of British soldiers quartered in Boston. Their destinations were Lexington, -
The 2nd Continental congress decided to completely break away from Great Britain.
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A few men had to do a drafting of a formal statement of the colonies' intentions, known as The Declaration of Independence.
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The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War, its how we got France's help against england.
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George Washington made his men fight bad weather, so they could be more as a team and it would help them win the war.
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The Articles of Confederation served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain.
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The Battle of Yorktown was one of the last battles in the Revaloutionary war.
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The Articles of Confederation were in force from March 1, 1781, until March 4, 1789, when the present Constitution went into effect.
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The Treaty of Paris of 1783, negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence.
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The convention faced a daunting task: the peaceful overthrow of the new American government as it had been defined by the Article of Confederation.
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The Great Compromise resolved issues of representation in Congress.
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stated that a slave would count as 3/5 of a person in terms of both taxation and representation
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signed by 38 of 41 delegates present at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Supporters of the document waged a hard-won battle to win ratification by the necessary nine out of 13 U.S. states.
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Washington is the first president to take office.
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The first 10 amendments to the Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. Written by James Madison .
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The Genet Affair threatened America's precarious international situation, caused an acute foreign crisis for President Washington
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People start to rebel against the taxation on whiskey.
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the treaty between Spain and the United States played a major role in the expansion of the infant nation's boundaries.
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an agreement that assuaged antagonisms between the United States and Great Britain
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Adams become president of the united states
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diplomatic incident between French and United States.
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The alien act is four different bills passed to tell you the rights of someone who isnt from America
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An undeclared war between the United States and France, the Quasi-War was the result of disagreements over treaties and America's status as a neutral in the Wars of the French Revolution.
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Thomas becomes president
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The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the united states.
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The case is about lost documents and how the cournt couldnt do anything about it.
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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out on an amazing expedition across the Louisiana Territory.
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Thomas Jefferson's nonviolent resistance to British and French molestation of U.S. merchant ships carrying.
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State v. National,basically Maryland whats to taxes a bank an the bank refuses because its a National bank, in the end national wins.
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tate license v National licenses, there basically fighting over who can run the river, in the end national wins.