New Nation Timeline By Jessica Simmons

Protest of the colonies because the British was excessively taxes. “The Boston Tea Party was a direct protest by colonists in Boston against the Tea Tax that had been imposed by the British government. Boston patriots, dressed as Mohawk Indians, raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped 342 containers of tea into the harbor."
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Delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia (which was fighting a Native-American uprising and was dependent on the British for military supplies) met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.
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The conflict arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain's 13 North American colonies and the colonial government, which represented the British crown.
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The Second Continental Congress met in 1775, when the Revolutionary war had started
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Written by Thomas Jefferson; "It signifies the break from the rule of King George III and from Great Britain. The Declaration of Independence is a symbol of American freedom and independence from British rule."
https://www.surfnetkids.com/independenceday/260/what-is-the-declaration-of-independence/

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First form of government in America which made the central government weak and unable to tax the states.
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Treaty that ends the Revolutionary War; negotiated between the United States and Great Britain and conducted by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay
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Event that showed that the nation needed to have a stronger central government under the Articles of Confederation
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"Though accepted by the convention, the Constitution had to be ratified by the people of the United States before it could take effect as the law of the land. The framers devised a system by which special state conventions of popularly elected delegates would be created to ratify the Constitution."
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The start of George Washington’s presidency. He changed the political game for America forever by creating Congress, a Cabinet to assist the President, along with other things.
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