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This Act banned colonial merchants from shipping goods to other countries. This limited which items could be imported to the colonies.

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This act taxed the importation on sugar. So every time colonists wanted to import sugar to another country they had to pay tax.

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This was a seven-year-long war between Britain and France. Many Native Americans allied with France since they treated the Natives more fairly. Britain began to defeat the French. Soon the French lost and, Britain had control of Canada.The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America. But since the king of Britain used up many supplies, after the war he had many debts to pay. To pay the debts the king made all the colonists pay. The colonists did not like this one bit.

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This act did not allow colonists to settle on the west side of the Appalachian Mountains. This is because it recognized the Indians right to land. This made colonists very mad since they did not want British soldiers to live among them.

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This act taxed anything that is printed on paper. Things such as stamps or a seal for letters.

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This act required colonists to house and feed British soldiers in their homes. They had to give them the best of what they had.

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This act made colonists pay tax on imported tea, plass, 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 British troops. Soon one soldier shouted "fire!" and 5 colonists died. King George told the soldiers not to shoot any colonists.

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

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A group of colonists disguised themselves as native americans. They threw over almost 300 crates of tea overboard. They did this to express their anger over the tea tax.

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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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Paul asked his friend to light one lantern in the tower if the british were attacking by land and two if by sea. He rode around town waking up the minutemen to get ready for the war.

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This was the battle of Lexington and Concord. One man made the first shot so the rest also followed. Soon everyone was firing their guns. This marked the beginning of the revolutionary war.

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British Troops were out to kill the leaders of the rebel group. They were John Hancock and Samuel Adams. General Gage decided to destroy the weapons that the colonists were holding in Concord. He decided to only tell one Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith about his plans. At 9:00 P.M. Gage ordered his troops to assemble and was made ready to leave boston. By 10:00 P.M., Paul Revere had warned the village and made his way across the Charles River with the same message that the British were coming. William, Revere, and Dawes rode around town until they were stopped by British officers. Dawes and Prescott escaped but Revere was held for a couple of hours.

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The Valley was a camp for the Continental Army during the winter of 1777-1778. Traditionally no battles were fought over the winter. The Continental army was running low on supplies. At Valley Forge there were first 11,000 men but 6,000 men were left from the end of the winter. 2,500 men died from starvation, cold, and disease. Another 2,500 men had deserted the army and gone home to tend to their families.

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Declaration Of Independence  Dec 1777 - June 1778

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Declaration Of Independence  Dec 1777 - June 1778

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Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. It took him a little more than a week to write. He also took the help of two other people. After it was completed they gave it to King George. In the Declaration they said that they wanted freedom, liberty, and life. They told him that they did not like the way he was treating them. They also told him that they were going to leave Britain and make their own country with fair laws. They were going to give everyone a say in what they do.

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When this war started King George did not believe that the colonists could win. They were poorly trained and had few resources. Soon the British army surrendered assuring that the Americans would win their independence. After the war it led directly to the peace negotiations. It gave independence to America.

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A constitution is a set of rules that guides how a country, state, or other political organization works. The constitution may tell what the branches of the government are, what powers they have, and how they work. It may also state the rights of citizens.

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Thomas Jefferson sent Robert Livingston and James Monroe to ask the French leader, Napoleon, to sell part of Louisiana, including New Orleans, to the United States. President Jefferson offered $10 million for the proximity of 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. He offered to sell the entire territory to the United States for $15 million which was $.04 an acre! On April 30, 1803, The United States decided to purchase the entire territory, New Orleans north to Canada. The scales became known as the Louisiana Purchase. Eventually, this land would become 15 new states. The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States. U.S. gained control of the port of New Orleans. With this land purchase, the U.S. became one of the largest countries in the world.

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To learn more about the land that was purchased, Thomas Jefferson created the Corps of Discovery - a team of about 40 people who explored the newly acquired land. The Corps was led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Their goal was to document their journey through maps and journals, paying close attention to the land and its resources. Sacagawea, a Native American Woman, joined the Corps of Discovery in the spring of 1805. Sacagawea's knowledge of Native American language made her a valuable asset to the group. Still, the trip was incredibly beneficial. It lasted three years and covered 8,000 miles. The members had learned about over 200 plants and animals that were new to the Americans. Lewis and his men drew about 140 of the first maps of most of the western United States.

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The House and the Senate agreed to let both Maine and Missouri enter the Union. Missouri would be a slave state and Maine would be a free state. They also agreed to accept for future guidance the dividing line that Senator Thomas had proposed.

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It gave the president power to negotiate removal treaties with Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi. Under these treaties, the Indians were to give up their lands east of the Mississippi in exchange for lands to the west. Those wishing to remain in the east would become citizens of their home state.

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General Winfield Scott and the Us army forced the Cherokee to move. The forced walk lasted 800 miles. It was summer and the hot sun killed many. The Cherokee leader begged for a winter walk, thinking it would be better. Unfortunately , winter was much worse than summer. soldiers would even kill cherokee that slowed them. down. About 4000 cherokee died. This journey was known as The Trail of Tears.

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The Oregon Trail began in Missouri and ended in Oregon city. Many people put their belongings in the covered wagon and they walked on land for 2,000 miles. Riding the wagon is very dangerous. Cholera is the biggest problem they faced since they can get killed in a matter of a couple of hours. They get this disease when they drink the water that they go to the bathroom in.

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Forces from the Confederate States of America attacked the United States military garrison at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. Less than two days later, the fort surrendered. No one was killed. The battle, however, started the Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in American history.

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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. The proclamation declared that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be free.

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The address is one of the greatest speeches in the history of the United States. Lincoln spoke of how humans were equal as it said in the Declaration of Independence. He also said the Civil War was a fight not simply for the Union, but "a new birth of freedom" that would make everyone truly equal in one united nation.

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The address is one of the greatest speeches in the history of the United States. Lincoln spoke of how humans were equal as it said in the Declaration of Independence. He also said the Civil War was a fight not simply for the Union, but "a new birth of freedom" that would make everyone truly equal in one united nation. It stated that no one was allowed to have slaves.

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Sherman's March to the Sea was an American Civil War campaign lasting from November 15 to December 21, 1864, in which Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman led troops through the Confederate state of Georgia, pillaging the countryside and destroying both military outposts and civilian properties. He burned everything in his path.

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Surrender at Appomattox Court House 1865

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Surrender at Appomattox Court House 1865

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It was where the Confederate army leader Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War. On April 9, 1865, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia—under the command of General Lee—was surrounded by Union troops at the town of Appomattox, Virginia.

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Lincoln became the first president to be assassinated when he was shot on April 14, 1865. The night he was shot, he and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, were watching a play in Washington, D.C. The entrance to their box seats was poorly guarded, allowing actor John Wilkes Booth to enter.