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The Constitution of the U.S  is the highest law of the U.S

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The Constitution of the U.S  is the highest law of the U.S

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-Shoshana

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We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

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Washington finally left Valley

Forge after being starved and

freezing for 6 months.

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There was a Treaty of

Alliance

between France and the U.S

it was assured at Paris

February 6th 1778.

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Hungry, freezing, and

cramped. In December

trained very confidently.

Washington and his troops

stayed camping for 6 months

straight.

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After we were defeated at the

Battle of Brandywine

George Washington and

the A mericans needed to

regroup. First he took his army

away from the British. Then he

put them in a way that he

could protect Philadelphia

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The Marquis de Lafayette was

was born in 1757 his mother

was killed when he was 12. A

few weeks later his grand

father died. He was left an

upper class orphan.

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George Washington crossed

the Delaware on christmas

night. They marched to New

Jersey. When they were there

They attacked and defeated

the Hessian troops.

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Common sense made it hard

for the british government.

The language that Thomas

Paine used was to the people

of America and was the first

book to openly ask for

independence from Great

Britain.

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The colonist did not like the taxes

for the tea so they dressed up as

Mohawk Indians and took a lot of

boxes of tea and threw all of it into

the Boston Harbor and thus the

Boston Tea Party.

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The colinst had to house

british soldiers and buy

beds, sheets and many

more things.

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The Stamp Act was that you

had to pay a lot of taxes for a

bunch of printed material like

newspapers, magazines and

legal documents.

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On April 5th 1764 parliament

took a better version of the

Sugar and the Molasses act.

The taxes were six pence per

gallon on the foreign molasses.

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The final colonial war was the French and

Indian War. It happened in Europe India

and North America. Because of the French

and Indian War parliament started taxing

us.