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French and Indian forces attack Massachusetts and kill 56 and abduct over 100 more.
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Westmoreland County, Virginia
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Places duty on various commodities, including lumber, food, molasses and rum in the British Colonies.
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Nine American colonies hold the Stamp Act Congress in New York and write the Declaration of Rights to protest taxation without representation.
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Additional levies are put on goods in American colonies, all would be repealed in three years, except for the tax on tea.
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British troops fire into a Boston mob who were demonstrating against British troops at the customs commission.
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Part of the Lewis and Clark expeditions
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Samuel Adams organizes and holds the first meeting.
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Josiah Quincy and Samuel Adams board three English East India Company ships and tosses 342 chests of tea overboard in protest of tea trade and British government taxation of the colonies. This caused the British Parliament to close the port of Boston and moved them closer to war.
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In response to the Boston Tea Party
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Quartering Act: required the colonists to allow British soldiers into their homes and the curtailment of self-rule. Led to the third Amendment of the Constitution prohibiting the U.S. army from doing the same.
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George Mason and George Washington formed this with no more than 100 men.
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Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia - attended by all colonies except Georgia. These men petitioned the stop of new regulations and called for boycotts against British imports. The King and Parliament made no concessions.
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Patrick Henry addresses the Virginia House of Burgesses in St. John's Church in Richmond. The crowd reacted with chants of, "To Arms! To Arms!"
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This was the official start of the American Revolution
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This was officially done by the Continental Congress.
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Thomas Paine published his pamphlet "Common Sense". It proclaimed the ability and right of America to create a free and democratic nation. This raised public support for American independence.
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From the pen of Thomas Jefferson and committee is approved and signed.
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This was said my Nathan Hale a spy for the Continental Army that was executed by the British.
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General Washington and the 7,000 men he commanded defeated the British troops.
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The French signed the treaties of alliance and commerce. The is a turning point of the war.
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Cooch's Bridge, Delaware
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This is the first constitution of the United States.
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General Washington marches 11,000 men into Valley Forge.
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After France signs the treaty of Amity and Commerce, and officially recognizing then new nation they send over L'Enfant to Valley Forge. He would later design the capital city of Washington, D.C.
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Angry about this he became a traitor against the America cause.
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General George Washington and Rochambeau join together to fight the British near Williamsburg. The battle started on 10/09 and ended on 10/16 when the British surrendered
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Preliminary peace treaty is signed. Later formalized as the "Treaty of Paris" because it was signed in Paris 1-30-1782
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Congress ratified the preliminary peace treaty
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Cites the "Bill of Rights"
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John Adams leads a delegation that signs the treaty ending the Re03volutionary War
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TIred of his poor vision Benjamin Franklin invented bi-focals.
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On the Delaware River
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George Washington presiding in Philadelphia's Independence Hall
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The U.S. Government begins to act in the Federal Hall, New York City, a converted Customs House
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Issued to Samuel Hopkins
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Originally submitted with 12, but two do not pass. Bill of rights contains the first 10 amendments
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Eli Whitney
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Each state's sovereign immunity
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