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1704: Privy Council
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1706: Board of Trade
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Stono Rebellion, 1739
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This was about some issues with the Iroquis
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Misnamed Battle of Bunker Hill, it was actuallly on breeds hill
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Ships of neutral countries could not trade with ports in which they
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The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War between Great Britain and France. In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there.
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Threatened to destabilize the entire colonial economy
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Replaced Molasses Act of 1733
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First direct tax on American colonies
Taxed items:
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Each colonial assembly was directed to provide for the basic needs of soldiers stationed within borders
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Petition to the King
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Invinted the revolutinary cotton gin
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“had, hath, and of right ought to have full power and authority
to make laws and statues of sufficient force and validity to
bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the
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Five Bostonians and two boys laid dead
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Proposed to give monopoly to East India Company on direct sales to the colonies
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30-130 men dressed in Mohawk costumes so people wouldnt recognise them
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First Continental Congress was held on, September 5, 1774
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Francis Cabot Lowell was known as a pioneer in employing women
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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Abolished property ownership as test of citizenship
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The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.
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Not a “Nation” but a “firm league of friendship”
Each state got one vote -
British made separate peace treaties with France and Spain
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Created procedures for the founding of 5 future states
Survey of Northwest territory and sale of land -
It threatened to collapse the young nation.
Tax laws favored trade at expense of agriculture
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Delaware ratified the constitution
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Pennsylvania ratifies the constitution
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New Jersey ratifies the constitution
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US mutual assistance treaty with France - 1778
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Georgia ratifies the constitution
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Connecticut ratifies the Constitution
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Massachusetts ratifies the Constitution
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Maryland ratifies the Constitution
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South Carolina ratifies the Constitution
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New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution
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Virginia ratifies the Constitution
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New York ratifies the Constitution
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North Carolina ratifies the Constitution
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George Washington is elected
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Rhode Island ratifies the Constitution
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The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791
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8000 post offices by 1830
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John Adams is elected
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It restricted what an immagrant could say and do
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George washington dies