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| Treaty of Paris 1783 | In this agreement Britain recongnized the independence of the United states of America |
| Bill of Rights | The first 10 amendments to the consitiution and they spell out the rights that people have and that the government must protect them |
| Who claimed Lousiana territority in 1783 | The spanish |
| Who claimed to own Alaska during this same time? | Russia |
| What was the Boston Massacre? | In 1770 the British fired their guns into a crowd of colonists killing 5 colonist. |
| Navigation Acts | A law passed by the British Parliament to regulate colonial trade and manufaturing |
| Continental Congress | A meeting that was held where colonial learders discussed the actions to be taken against the British as the revolution began. |
| George Washington | Military leader of the colonial (American) army during the American Revolution |
| Thomas Jefferson | The peson who wrote the "rough" draft of the Declaration of Independence using many of the ideas of the enlightenment period |
| Battle of Saratoga | Turning point in the American Revolution a colonist victory made it possible for France to join the Americans to fight with them against the British |
