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Russia suffered a famine that killed one-third of the population, about two million. At the time, Russia was occupied by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Dymytriads, and suffered from civil uprisings, usurpers and impostors.
1643
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-the Massachusetts bay Plymouth new haven and Connecticut settlement formed the new England confederation
- these settlements formed a league of friendship in which settlement would come to the others defense against native Americans
1767
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Parliament also enacted the Townshend Duties, taxes on paper, paints, glass, and tea, goods imported into the colonies from Britain. Since these taxes were levied on imports, the British thought of them as "external" taxes rather than internal taxes such as the Stamp tax.
1774
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The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774. a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. These were elected by the people, by the colonial legislatures, or by the committees of correspondence of the respective colonies
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The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War. The Second Congress functioned as a de facto national government at the outset of the Revolutionary War by raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and writing treatises such as the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms and the Olive Branch Petition
1776
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The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776
1776
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Two states, Connecticut and Rhode Island, did not write new constitutions, but instead simply re- vised their colonial charters. On January 5, 1776, New Hampshire's provincial congress adopted the first state constitution.
1777
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Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States, on November 15, 1777. ... The Articles created a loose confederation of sovereign states and a weak central government, leaving most of the power with the state governments
1787
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It called for a national government of three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. The people would elect members for one of the two legislative chambers
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The original states, except Rhode Island, collectively appointed 70 individuals to the Constitutional Convention. A number of these individuals did not accept or could not attend includes Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Samuel Adams and, John Hancock. In all, 55 delegates attended the Constitutional Convention sessions, but only 39 actually signed the Constitution. The delegates ranged in age from Jonathan Dayton, aged 26, to Benjamin Franklin, aged 81, who was so infirm that he had to be carried to sessions in a sedan chair.