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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson one of the founding fathers of America -
Alexander Hamilton
Alexnder Hamilton was one of the first founding fathers of America. -
French and Indian War
Conflict in the Ohio River Valley between the British and the French Indians allied with mostly French. -
Proclamation of 1763
It was a territory contract after the french and indian war. -
Sugar Act
Parliament passed the sugar act which put taxes on anything that had sugar on it. It was a smaller tax then the molasses act but it was more heavily inforced and had greater things taxed on it. -
Townshend Act
They were a whole bunch of taxes on a whole bunch of things. -
The Boston Massacre
This was an event where British soldiers shot and killed 5 people while other people were harrassed. -
Tea act
The british were low on money so they taxed tea. -
Boston Tea Party
This is where the colonits were mad about being taxed unfairly and threw all of the tea from england into the water. -
Intolerable Acts
It was meant to punish the colonits for throwing tea into the ocean. -
The First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a group of people elected by the 13 colonies to represent them. -
The Battle of Lexington
This was the first battle of the American Revolutionary War. It was the war where the phrase "A shot around the world" came from and also "The British are coming." -
The Second Continental Congress
This was the second group of people of representatives for the 13 colonies. -
The Battle of Fort Ticonderoga
It was a war about a key waterway. Using the waterway they took over a fort which had cannons and with those cannons they took over another fort. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
They got attacked and they were low on gunpowder so they built a minor fort and one of the American generals said not to fire until they say the whites in there eyes. -
Bunker Hill
This was a battle on a hill in Charleston. One of the famous quotes that was said there because they were low on gunpowder was. "Don't shoot till you see the whites of there eyes." -
Common sense article
Thomas Paine. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a paper signed saying that the 13 colonies were not apart of Britan anymore. -
The Treaty of Paris
This was the Treaty that ended the war and gave the 13 colonies there land. -
George Washington becoming president after the war
This was the day the George Washington became the first president of the United States of America.
