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Virginia Code
Non-christian servants become slaves and slaves become property -
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First Great Awakening
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French & Indian War
Also known as the Seven Years War -
Treaty of Paris
Ended the French and Indian War -
Battles at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts
First Battles of the Revolutionary War. This was important because the rebells won at Concord, so it showed them that they saw that they could win the war. -
Declaration of Independence
Gave the Americans Independence from Britain -
Articles of Confederation
First Attempt at a federal government in the colonies. But it failed -
Constitutional Convention
This is where they wrote the new Constitution -
Judiciary Act of 1789
established the Judicial Courts of the US -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1793