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Between 1651 and 1660, the Navigation Acts banned colonial merchants from shipping goods to foreign countries and limited the items that could be imported to the colonies.

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Under the Sugar Act 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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The French and Indian War was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes.

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The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian war/Seven Years' War between France and Great Britian, as well as their respective allies.

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The Proclomation of 1763 regonized the Indians' right to the land and it did not allow colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. this made colonists very angry cause 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 colinists to buy a stamp, or seal, for paper products.

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

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These acts made colonists pay taxes on imported 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 soldier. Soon more soldiers arrived, and as the 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 the 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 3 trade ships in Boston Harbor and throwing the ships' cargo of tea overboard into the ocean.

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The Coercive Act and The Intolerable Act (1774)

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The Coercive Act and The Intolerable Act (1774)

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These acts were an effort to make the colonists to pay for the tea and to keep the colonists from planning other attacks.These laws stopped all trade between Boston and Britian, did not allow town meetings, gave Brtian control of the colon of Massachusetts, and strengthend 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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The Battle of Lexington and Concord (1775)

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The Battle of Lexington and Concord (1775)

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The battles of Lexington and Concord were some of the leading military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusets Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Menotomy, and Cambridge

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The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America, is the founding document of the United States.

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Washington's army camped at Valley Forge from Dec. 18 until June 19, 1778. The site was along the Schuylkill River, about 20 miles from British-occupied Philadelphia. During this time the troops suffered from the harsh winter weather and insufficient supplies of food and clothing.

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The siege of Yorktown, also known as the battle of Yorktown and the surrender of Yorktown, began September 28, 1781, and ended on October 19, 1781, at exactly 10:30 a.m. in Yorktown.

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Written in 1787, ratified in 1788, and in operation since 1789, the United States Constitution is the world's longest surviving written charter of government. Its first three words - "We The People" - affirm that the governmen of the Untited States exist to serve its citizens.

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In this transaction with France, signed on April 30th, 1803, the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi river for $15 million. For roughly 4 cents an acre, the United States doubled its size, expanding its notation westward.

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After the Lousiana purchase presedent Thomas Jefferson wanted to know what was in those soon-to-be states. He sent Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark to discover it. Soon after they met Sacagawea who was a 17 year old Native American who spoke two different Native American languages. The whole trip lasted about three years.

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The Missouri Compromise was a federal legislation of the Untited States that balanced desires of northern states to prevent the expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it.

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The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant land west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian Lands within existing state borders.

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Between 1830 and 1850, about 100,000 Amercan Indians living between Michigan, Lousiana, and Florida moved west after the U.S. government coerced treaties or used the U.S. Army against those resisting. Many were treated brutally. An estimated 3,500 Creeks died in Alabama and on their westward journey.

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Forces from the Confederate States of America attacked the Untied Stated military garrison at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.

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

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The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S president Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the soldiers National Cemetery.

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A military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864.

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General E. Lee, commander of all confederate forces, surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutentant General Ulysses S. Grant.

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Abraham Lincoln was an American Lawyer, politicion, statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assasination is 1865.