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These acts banned colonial merchants from shipping goods to foreign countries and limited which items could be imported to the colonies.

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Under that law, a tax was placed on the importation of sugar from the French West Indies, forcing the American rum distillers to buy more costly sugar from the British West Indies.

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It recognized the Indians rights to the land and it did not allow colonists to settle West of the Appalachian Mountains. This made colonists very angry because they wanted to settle on the land and they did not want british soldiers to live among them.

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This act taxed anything printed on paper by requiring colonists to buy a stamp, or seal, for paper products.

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This act required colonists to quarter, or house and feed, British soldiers.

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These acts made colonists pay taxes on important tea, glass, paper and other items to pay for rising military costs due to the Quartering Act.

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Colonists began to shout insults and throw snowballs at the soldiers. Soon more soldiers arrived, and as mob grew louder and angrier, shots were fired. This deadly riot resulted in five colonists being killed that evening.

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This act made in British East India Company the only company allowed to sell tea to the colonies.

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This was a protest by the American Colonists against the British government. They staged the protest by boarding three trade ships in Boston Harbor and throwing the ships cargo of tea overboard into the ocean

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These acts were an effort to make the colonists pay for the tea and keep the colonists from planning other attacks. These laws stopped all trade between Boston and Britain, did not allow town meetings, gave Britain control of the colony of Massachusetts, and strengthened the Quartering Act. Since the port of Boston was closed, the trading of goods between the colonies also stopped which greatly impacted the economies of all the colonies.

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Lexington and Concord is the saleabration of the patriots winning the war.

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the Constitutional Convention was a meeting from 1786 to 1787.

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During the french and Indian War, France had given much of its land in North America to spain to prevent the British from getting control of the land. spain closed the port of New Orleans to Americas, hoping to stop the United states from moving farther west past the Mississippi river. Jefferson, the third President of the United States, takes the oath of office on March 4, 1801. President Jefferson called the United States a rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful land. Thomas Jefferson sent Robert Livingston and James Monroe to ask the French leader, Napoleon, to the United States. President Jefferson offered $10M for the approximately 800,000 square miles of land. Napoleon was fighting two wars. One in the Caribbean and one with England. He needed money to pay the costs of these two wars.

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Admitted Missouri as a slave state And Maine as a non-slave state.

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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war.

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The cherokee was living in Georgia, the U.S did not attack. The U.S gave them a treaty and three men signed it. But beca

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Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter less than 34 hours later the Union surrendered.

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure.

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This campaign, known as Sherman's March to the Sea, was marked by its objective, to damage the Confederacy's ability to win the war.

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Near the end of the American Civil War, Lincoln's assassination was part of a larger conspiracy intended by Booth to revive the Confederate cause by eliminating the three most important officials of the federal government.