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Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts, mostly in and around Springfield during 1786 and 1787
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ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by France, Great Britain, and Spain, treaty ensured the colonial and maritime supremacy of Britain and strengthened the 13 American colonies by removing their European rivals to the north and the south
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loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes, primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country who were dissatisfied with British postwar policies in the Great Lakes region
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created an imaginary line along the Appalachian Mountains that prohibited European settlement beyond the crest of the mountains
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slaughtered 20 innocent and defenseless Susquehannock (Conestoga) Indians, John Penn issued proclamations ordering the local magistrates to arrest and try those men involved in the massacre
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also known as the American Revenue Act or the American Duties Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain
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Act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the Thirteen Colonies and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp
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series of British Acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 and relating to the British in North America, named after Charles Townshend
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treaty between Native Americans and Great Britain, signed in 1768 at Fort Stanwix, in present-day Rome, New York.
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street fight between a "patriot" mob, several colonists killed
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chattel slavery was unsupported by the common law in England and Wales
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political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of British tea into the harbor.
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"would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes"
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punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
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first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. Battles were fought Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge
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meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.
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convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after the American Revolutionary War had begun.
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first major battle of the American Revolution, fought in Charlestown
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pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
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at the Pennsylvania State House, Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.formally declared on July 2, 1776, a date that John Adams believed would be “the most memorable in the history of America.
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won two crucial battles of the American Revolution, Washington defeated a formidable garrison of Hessian mercenaries before withdrawing.
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giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British, turning point of Revolutionary War
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with France, creating a military alliance between the United States and France against Britain
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the original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789
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plan by Continental Army officers to challenge the authority of the Confederation Congress
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signed in Paris, ended the American Revolutionary War, official peace treaty between the U.S and Britain
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regional meeting at Annapolis, Maryland, in September 1786 that was an important rallying point in the movement toward a federal convention to address the inadequate Articles of Confederation.
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gathering for the purpose of writing a new constitution or revising an existing constitution
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A law passed in 1787 to regulate the settlement of the Northwest Territory, which eventually was divided into several states of the Middle West.
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series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison between October 1787 and May 1788. The essays were published anonymously, under the pen name "Publius," in various New York state newspapers of the time.
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The first inauguration of George Washington as the first President of the United States was held on Thursday, April 30, 1789 on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City, New York
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revolution in France from 1789 to 1799. It led to the end of the monarchy, and to many wars. King Louis XVI was executed in 1793. The revolution ended when Napoleon Bonaparte took power in November 1799
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Alexander Hamilton's First Report on the Public Credit, delivered to Congress on January 9, 1790, called for payment in full on all government debts as the foundation for establishing government credit.
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A dramatic aerial view of the U.S. Capitol and its surroundings in modern-day Washington, D.C. Once the site for the new capital was selected in 1790, President Washington retained Pierre Charles L'Enfant, a French engineer and former officer in the Continental Army, to design and lay out the new capital city
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tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington
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national bank, chartered for a term of twenty years, by the United States Congress on February 25, 1791. It followed the Bank of North America, the nation's first de facto central bank.
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Hamilton urged congress to promote manufacturing so that the United States could be "independent on foreign nations for military and other essential supplies
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first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. Proposed following the often bitter 1787–88 battle over ratification of the U.S
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incident precipitated by the military adventurism of Citizen Edmond-Charles Genêt, a minister to the United States dispatched by the revolutionary Girondist regime of the new French Republic, which at the time was at war with Great Britain and Spain
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was the final battle of the Northwest Indian War, a struggle between Native American tribes affiliated with the Western Confederacy, including support from the British led by Captain Alexander McKillop, against the United States for control of the Northwest Territory
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was a 1795 treaty between the United States and Great Britain that averted war, resolved issues remaining since the Treaty of Paris of 1783
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peace between the United States of America, and the tribes of Indians called the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawanees, Ottawas
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also commonly known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo or the Treaty of Madrid, was signed in San Lorenzo de El Escorial on October 27, 1795 and established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain.
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The United States presidential election of 1796 was the third quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Friday, November 4 to Wednesday, December 7, 1796
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diplomatic incident between French and United States diplomats that resulted in a limited, undeclared war known as the Quasi-War. U.S
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passed by the Federalist Congress in 1798 and signed into law by President Adams
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undeclared war fought almost entirely at sea between the United States and France from 1798 to 1800
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referred to as the "Revolution of 1800", Vice President Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party defeated incumbent President John Adams of the Federalist Party. The election was a realigning election that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican rule
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reduced the size of the Supreme Court from six justices to five and eliminated the justices' circuit duties. To replace the justices on circuit, the act created sixteen judgeships for six judicial circuits
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The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis is an oil painting by John Trumbull. The painting was completed in 1820, and hangs in the rotunda of the United States Capitol in Washington, D. C
