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House of Burgesses using laws to protect the interest of slave owners.
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A collection of sermons
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Patented Thomas Newcomen
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Between British colinists and Native Americans.
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First printing shop in Annapolis. Started Chesapeakes stable local trade in printing and books.
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A mix of a colonists desire for cheap land and the ever changing relationship between Pennsylvanians and their Native Neighbors.
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Slave uprising against white people, attempted escape towards Spanish Flordia.
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Started travelling the colonies as a preacher of Calvinist views.
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Restricted the use of paper money.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Also known as French and Indian War.
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Fredrick II or Prussia invaded Saxony.
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French attacked and burned this British outpost.
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Quakers disowned members who engaged in slave trade.
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French thwarted General Abercrombie's attack on this outpost.
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British capture of Montreal.
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Again restricted use of paper money.
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Officially ended the American Revolution.
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Offically ended the Seven Years' War and Third Silesian War.
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Attemted take over of Fort Detroit resulting in a six-month seige of the British fort.
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Marked boundaries between British colonies and Native American held land.
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Levied taxes on sugar for colonists.
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James Hargreaves
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Brought colonials together against taxes imposed by Parliment.
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Imposed a tax on printed materials.
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Passed by the House of Burgesses, these are of the most famous anti-Stamp Act resolutions.
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Pontiac and William Johnson settled for peace at Fort Ontario.
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Due to violence, boycotts, and violence, Great Britain repealed the Stamp Act.
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Named after Charles Townsend, these were a series of duties or 4 different taxes on china, glass, tea, lead, paint, and paper.
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All except the duty on tea.
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Started with colonists gathering around the Custom House and ended with five dead Bostonians.
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Parliment put the East India Company under government control.
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Tea taxes had to be paid when tea was unloaded from ship.
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Colonists and the "Sons of Liberties" threw a large amount of tea into the harbor.
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First convened and started the "Declaration of Rights and Grievances."
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America fought for freedom form England.
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Attempts to dislodge colonists from Breed's Hill. They eventually took the hill, but only after suffering several casualties.
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In Virginia, allowed enslaved people to escape and join the British Army.
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The British had seized Lexington and Concord.
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Dismissed colonists petitions. The King believed colonists were being misled.
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Precurser to Declaration of Independence calling states to withdraw from royal officials.
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Congress approved the document, but the Americans still had to win the war.
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Continential Army defeated Burgoyene after he was deserted by General Howe. Turning point in war for colonists.
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Turned America's rebellion into a global war.
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Philadelphian's procession in honor of the new constitution.
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Benjamin Franklin
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by the Continential Congress.
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Thousands of enslaved people escaped with the retreating British Army.
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Invented by Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier
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Offically came to an end.
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Invented by Edmund Cartwright.
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Between the U.S. and the Western Confederacy for control of the Northwest Teriitory.
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Invented by John Fitch
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Ended in 1787, uprising of farmers in debt.
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Reopened the courts by arresting more than 1000 Shaysites involved in Shay's Rebellion.
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Between New England and the Deep South that allowed slavery as long as the Deep South agrred to New Englands terms.
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No official government religion.
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All though debates were not over, Congress announced that most states had put this new constitution into effect.
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The supreme law of the United States, written as a basis for American government.
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Started his first term as President.
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Were added to the U.S. Consitution.
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Congress approved 21 year charter.
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Protest against taxes in the U.S. that ended in violence.
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He led around 7000 men to rob from the U.S. Mail and then gathered outside of Pittsburg.
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Signed a "treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation” with the British requiring them to abandon their military outposts in the Northwest.
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Patented by Eli Whitney
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Being the only sitting President to led troops in the field, he shut down the Rebel farmers and then handed it over to Henry Lee.
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Speech at the end of his presidency.
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Invented by Edward Jenner
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Started term as Second U.S. President.
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"Allowed the federal government to deport foreign nationals, or “aliens,” who seemed to pose a national security threat."
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Prosocute those speaking against the government.
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Ended in 1800
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A tax revolt among the Pennsylvania Dutch farmers.
The third tax revolt after Shay's and Whiskey Rebellions.
