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These acts banned colonists from trading with foreign countries and limited what items could be imported to the colonies. These acts were passed in 1651 & 1660.

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This act was an act that taxed importation of sugar from the French West Indies forcing the colonists to buy more costly sugar. This act was passed in 1733.

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This war lasted from 1754 to 1763 and is also known as the Seven Years War. It was a war between France and Great Britain over the control of North America. The Native Americans were on the French side because the French treated them more fairly.

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This treaty was made between the French and the British for the French and Indian War. The British got most of North America and France got the West Indies. This also lead to Britain gaining Florida from Spain and losing Cuba to Spain. The treaty was made in 1763 at the end of the war.

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This act didn't allow the colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. Soldiers guarded the mountains so that no colonists could pass. The colonists wanted to settle west because they wanted to be free.

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This act taxed anything printed on paper by making colonists buy stamps for paper products. This act was passed in 1765.

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This act forced colonists to give British soldiers the best housing they had and best food they had.This act was passed in 1765.

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This act taxes basic needs such as glass, paper, tea, and other items for debt from military costs due to the Quartering Act. This act was passed in 1767.

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Colonists started shouting and insulting the soldiers and through snowballs at them. More and more colonists came beginning a revolt against the soldiers when the soldiers suddenly fired. Five colonists were killed in the deadly riot. This happened in 1770.

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This act restricted tea to be sold to the colonists by only one company; the British East India Company. This act was passed in 1773.

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This was a protest by the colonists as they did not want to be able to only buy tea from the British East India Company. The colonists disguised themselves as Native Americans and threw tea crates overboard a British East India Company ship. This happened right after the Tea Act.

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This act was an act that forced colonists to pay for tea, stopped Boston from trading with Britain, stopped all town meetings, gave Britain control over Massachusetts, and strengthened the Quartering Act. This act was passed in 1774.

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The British came to Lexington and Concord to destroy all of the Patriots' firearms and ammunition, but they failed. They failed because in Lexington the Battle started with the "Shot Heard 'Round The World" but there the patriots technically lost. But in Concord, the Patriots won and they earned the confidence of getting independence as the British retreated to Boston. These battles happened on April 19, 1775.

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This declaration was written by the Continental Congress to tell Britain that they were declaring independence. They listed the reasons they wanted their own government and wanted to be an independent country. The Declaration of Independence was written on July 4, 1776.

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This was the winter of 1777-1778 when a lot of soldiers died or went home. They losts lots of supplies and food

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The French ally with the American and block all ways of escape for British General Cornwallis. Cornwallis surrenders after a battle the both sides fought. It started out with the British winning in the South but up North they had to surrender. This was the last battle and it happened in 1781.

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In 1787 the Americans did a meeting to make a strong government. In that meeting they wrote a document about the government they were making. In the document it described three compromises for three problems that some states had with others. The problems were Representation in Congress, Counting of Population and Slave Trade.

Representation: States with more population and states with less population were disagreeing on how much representatives each state has. Larger populated countries wanted to have more representatives for more population and smaller populated countries wanted the number of representatives to be equal. So they made a compromise called the Great Compromise which made it so that there were two legislature branches: the Senate and the House of Representatives. The amount of representatives for the Senate was equal and amount for the House of Representatives was based on population (1 representative for every 40,000 people).

Counting of Population: Southern states were disagreeing with the Northern states about if slaves count in the population. Southern states had many slaves so to get more representatives they wanted slaves to be counted. The Northern states argued that slaves had no rights and weren't citizens they shouldn't be considered part of the population. So they made a compromise called the Three Fifths Compromise which gave three representatives for every five slaves.

Slave Trade: The Southern states wanted to trade slaves as it was a right at that time. The Northern states argued that that was inhuman and slaves shouldn't be traded for other stuff. So they just said that slave trade be allowed for 20 more years and after that the Congress could regulate it.

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The Louisiana Purchase was made in 1803. It started in the French and Indian war when France gave much of its land to Spain as they did not want Britain to get the land. Later, Spain secretly gave it back to France. When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, he wanted New Orleans for trade. He asked Napoleon Bonaparte who was the leader of France at that time, for part of the Louisiana territory including New Orleans for 10 mil. Napoleon was fighting 2 war one in the Caribbean and one with England so he needed money. He offered the whole territory for 15 mil. Jefferson approved it and it became known as the Louisiana Purchase.

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This long journey led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark lasted from May 14, 1804 to Sep 23, 1806. This journey started from St. Louis and went to the Pacific coast. Along the way they met Sacagawea who was valuable to their team, the Corps of Discovery. This journey gave them 140 maps of 1600 acres of land!!!!!!!!!!

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The Missouri Compromise was a compromise between the northern and southern states of America to make Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state. This happened on March 2, 1820.

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This act was passed in 1830 because US citizens wanted gold. This was the beginning of the Trail of Tears.

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From 1831 to 1850 this terrible inhumane trip started in Georgia all the way to Arkansas. After the Indian Removal Act, the US military rode on horses with the Natives walking or going on boats, many dying on the way.

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1841 to 1869 was a very sad but adventurous period of time. After the Lewis and Clark Expedition, we knew much more about the west. Hundreds of thousands of settlers packed and scrambled into the west. But many had died on the way. As all the dangers challenged the settlers, they faced the obstacles and many finished the journey with the determination and bravery thay had.

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The Attack on Fort Sumter on April 12-13, 1861 was the first battle of the Civil War. The Confederate Army shot the fort and the Union troops immediately surrendered. No one had died and the Civil War had begun.

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The Emancipation Proclamation created by President Abraham Lincoln stated that slavery was banned in all of the U.S., but the Confederacy didn't follow this rule. They believed that they were a new country so they said the rule did not apply to them, but Lincoln viewed both the Union and the Confederacy as one country.

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This speech given by Abraham Lincoln on Nov 19, 1863 honoured the Union soldiers who died in the Battle of Gettysburg. He said that we should finish the war quickly or the soldiers would've given their lives for no reason.

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At the end of 1864(Nov-Dec), General Sherman had the idea to start in Georgia's capital marching to Savannah, Georgia, destroying everything in his path. This was tragic for the Confederacy and many innocent peoples' farms were burnt down.

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General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant in the Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865.

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John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the John's Theatre on April 15, 1865.