US History

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  • boston massacre

    british soilders murder several citizens that provocyed them to do so.,
  • boston tea party

    The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies
  • thomas jefferson

    Jefferson began his work on June 11 and toiled in seclusion writing a number of drafts. After presenting his final draft, the committee further revised the document and submitted it to the Continental Congress on June 28. On July 2, the Continental Congress voted for independence and refined its Declaration of Independence before releasing it to the public on July 4th.
  • decleration of independents

    The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
  • article of confedration

    The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 founding states that legally established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.
  • treaty of paris

    The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on the one hand and the United States of America and its allies on the other
  • shay's rebillion

    Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787
  • three branches of government

    the three branches are the parts that handle laws, enforcing those laws, and inteperting those laws.
    -legislative branch
    -exective branch
    -judical branch
  • President Geogre Washington

    George Washington (February 22, 1732 to December 14, 1799) was the first President of the United States of America, serving from 1789 to 1797, and dominant military and political leader of the United States from 1775 to 1799
  • Bill of Rights

    the bill of rights is the first ten Amendments in the first 27. These ten Amendments are called the bill of rights beacuse there the most important