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-Established U.S. boundaries, specified certain fishing rights, allowed creditors of each country to be paid by citizens of the other, restored the rights and property of Loyalists, opened up the Mississippi River to citizens of both nations and provided for evacuation of all British forces.
-Was one of a series of treaties collectively know as the Peace of Paris, or the Treaty of Versailles of 1783, which also established peace between Great Britain and the allied nations of France, Spain, and the Netherlands.
-In the aftermath, parts of the treaty were not honored by both nations. The Americans did not honor the section about not confiscating loyalist property. The British did not return former American slaves and they also did not remove their troops from frontier forts on the United States side of the border until after the Jay Treaty.

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-The Americans had a fighting force of approximately 8,800 who were aided by 7,800 French soldiers against a British force of about 6,000.
-Although this final major battle took place in 1781 the American Revolutionary War was not officially over until the signing of the Treaty of Paris in September of 1783.
-British General Cornwallis, claiming to be sick, had General Charles O'Hara officially surrender to the Americans and French.

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-The British plan during the Battles of Saratoga was to split the Thirteen Colonies apart, as they decided that the New England Colonies were less loyal than the Middle and Southern Colonies. Their plan was to sever the New England Colonies altogether.
-During the first battle on September 19th, 1777 the British force was 7,200 strong and the American force was 9,000 strong.
-The victory of the Americans over the British at the second of the Battles of Saratoga resulted in the French recognizing the plight of the American colonists and joining them as allies in their fight for independence from the British.

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-Independence was formally declared on July 2, 1776, a date that John Adams believed would be “the most memorable epocha in the history of America.”
-Once the Declaration of Independence had been written and signed, printer John Dunlap was asked to make about 200 copies to be distributed throughout the colonies.
-Jefferson was quite unhappy about some of the edits made to his original draft of the Declaration of Independence. He had originally included language condemning the British promotion of the slave trade (even though Jefferson himself was a slave owner). This criticism of the slave trade was removed in spite of Jefferson’s objections.

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-Thomas Jefferson would replace Peyton Randolph after the first few weeks. Only 12 of the 13 colonies had delegates at the first meeting of the Second Continental Congress. Georgia sent delegates after deciding on July 8th, 1775, that they needed to join the American Revolution. The delegates arrived on July 20th, 1775.
-By the time Congress had convened, hostilities between Great Britain and the American Colonies had already begun at the Battles of Concord and Lexington in Massachusetts, in April 1775.
-Even though a state of war existed between Great Britain and the American Colonies, the Congress originally did not intend to declare independence.

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-On April 19th of 1775 approximately seven hundred redcoats arrived at Lexington where they were met by around seventy seven armed colonists on the town green.
-What exactly happened, that led to shots being fired, is unclear. Greatly outnumbered the colonist were about to disperse when a shot was fired. Who fired the first shot is not known. This resulted in several volleys being fired leaving 8 colonists dead and several wounded; only one British soldier was wounded.
-The British march back to Boston which covered approximately 18 miles (29 kilometers) turned into a retreat as more-and-more militiamen (perhaps as many as 3,500) joined the conflict. Shooting at the British soldiers from behind trees and rocks and whatever cover they could find they inflicted significant damage on the troops.

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-During the meeting, discussions at the First Continental Congress involved how to deal with the possibility of their petition to halt the 'Coercive Acts' being rejected by the British.
-Peyton Randolph presided over the First Continental Congress from September 5th, to October 21st, 1774, when Henry Middleton took over. Henry presided over the First Continental Congress from October 22nd to October 26th, 1774.
-The result of the First Continental Congress was to pass and sign the Continental Association in the Declaration and Resolves. The Continental Association called for a boycott of British goods, which would come into effect in December of that same year.

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-It was a protest by the American Colonists against the British in regards to the tea taxes that had been imposed on them. This protest involved throwing chests of tea from three British trade ships into the Boston Harbor.
-It is estimated that hundreds took part in the Boston Tea Party. For fear of punishment, many participants of the Boston Tea Party remained anonymous for many years after the event. To date it is known that 116 people are documented to have participated.
-The Boston Tea Party was organized and carried out by a group of Patriots led by Samuel Adams known as the Sons of Liberty.

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-The tea from the British East India Company was more expensive than what could be imported from elsewhere - and they had a monopoly of the sale of 'legal' tea in the 13 colonies.
-Approximately 900,000 pounds of tea was being smuggled into the colonies each year from the Dutch, while only 562,000 pounds of tea was being bought from the British East India Company.
-In 1770 when most of the Townsend Taxes were repealed the tea tax remained. The Townsend Acts had been met with so much resistance that the British sent troops in 1768 to occupy Boston. This had led to the Boston Massacre in 1770, and the subsequent decision to repeal most of the taxes of The Townsend Act.

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-The heavy military presence in the town that lead to the incident was the result of British enforcement of the Townshend Acts of 1767.
-Altogether 5 civilians were killed. Their names were Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, Patrick Carr, Samuel Maverick and James Caldwell.
-A town meeting held at Faneuil Hall appointed their own committee to investigate the incident. Samuel Adams was the chairman of the committee who insisted that the British troops left the town.

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- Was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.
-The purpose of the collected funds was to protect the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains. The majority of the cost was to maintain the contingent of 10,000 British troops.
-The significance of the Stamp act was due to the fact that for the first time the tax was installed not to regulate commerce and trade, but to directly squeeze money out of colonists. Moreover the tax was introduced by a direct order from England without approval of the colonial legislature.

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-The proper name of the Sugar Act is The American Revenue Act of 1764. The Sugar Act was an extension of the Molasses Act (1733), which was set to expire in 1763.
-The goal of the act was to raise revenue to help defray the military costs of protecting the American colonies at a time when Great Britain’s economy was saddled with the huge national debt accumulated during the French and Indian War.
-It increased the number of items that would be taxed when they were imported to the colonies, but it actually reduced the tax on molasses and sugar from 6 pence per gallon to 3 pence per gallon.

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-The Proclamation of 1763 created four new territories that were open to settlement: Quebec, East Florida, West Florida, and Grenada.
-It also required squatters living west of the proclamation line to return to the east and prohibited colonists from purchasing land from American Indians.
-Was designed to calm the fears of Native Indians by halting the westward expansion by colonists whilst expanding the lucrative fur trade.

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-The Seven Years’ War (called the French and Indian War in the colonies) lasted from 1756 to 1763, forming a chapter in the imperial struggle between Britain and France called the Second Hundred Years’ War.
-During 1754 and 1755, the French defeated in quick succession the young George Washington, Gen. Edward Braddock, and Braddock’s successor, Governor William Shirley of Massachusetts.
-At the peace conference in 1763, the British received Canada from France and Florida from Spain, but permitted France to keep its West Indian sugar islands and gave Louisiana to Spain.The treaty strengthened the American colonies significantly by removing their European rivals to the north and south and opening the Mississippi Valley to westward expansion.