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A fight between France and Britain over control of North America that led to British dominance, but also made the colonists angry
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The British drew a line along the Appalachian Mountains keeping colonists from settling west to prevent conflicts with Native Americans.
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Britain taxed colonists on paper document. Colonists weren't happy and protested against it.
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Britain said they had the right to make laws for colonies. This occurred after the Stamp Act.
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Britain let a company sell cheap tea but with a tax. Colonists rejected it because they saw it as a violation of their rights
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Colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor in response to the Tea Act.
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A document declaring that the colonies were free from British rule
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A law that explained how new states could be admitted into the United States and ban slavery in the Northwest
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First written confederation of the United States.
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A treaty that ended the American Revolutionary War and recognized the U.S as and independent country.
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A meeting where delegates discussed a new plan for the American government which became the U.S constitution
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The states officially approving the new U.S. Constitution
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When the United States brought a large amount of land from France, making the country bigger.
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A law that sadly forced Native American tribes to leave their land.
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Laws trying to resolve the issue of slavery in new territories and admitting California as a new state
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A war between the United States and Mexico, resulting in the U.S. gaining new territories
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Law that allowed people of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether to allow slavery, which lead to violence
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Presidential election that led to Abraham Lincoln becoming president and increased tensions between the North and South
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A war fought between the Northern and Southern states over slavery, ending in the abolishment of slavery.
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Freed enslaved people during the war in the South
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Amendment by the constitution that abolished slavery in the United States