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The sons of liberty dressed up as native Americans and boarded a British ship and dumped roughly 30 chests worth of tea into the harbour. -
This was the first military engagement of the American revolution. -
The Declaration of Independence was finalized on July 4th but the colonies started signing on July 2nd and then on July 5th was the original copies but the formal copies and the copy that everyone signs comes out on August 2nd. -
A critical period for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. -
After being signed by delegates at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 only nine out of the thirteen states needed to ratify the Constitution for it to become the framework for the new government. New Hampshire was the ninth state to ratify achieving this on June 21 1788. -
George Washington was 67 years old at his house in mount Vernon Virginia. He had a throat infection that lead to his death. -
Establishing the first government of the newly independent United States. This ratification followed nearly four years of debate and revisions. -
It effectively ended major land operations in the war and led to peace negotiations with Britain. And was a decisive war victory for the USA. -
He was sworn in as the first President of the United States marking the beginning of the executive branch under the newly ratified Constitution. -
It was a letter written by Washington as he prepared to retire from the presidency at the end of his second term. -
This was the first peaceful transfer of power in the United States. -
Is a landmark Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review.