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- Declaration of Independence - Document that explains the colonists' right to revolution, rallied troops
- War of 1812 - War between Britain and the United States over impressment of American seamen, ended inconclusively
- Sectionalism - Tension that eventually led to conflict between Southern slave states and Northern free states
- Treaty of Paris - Ended the American Revolution
- Monroe Doctrine - Stated that the United States would protect other countries from European imperialism
- Constitutional Convention - Decided to get rid of the Articles of Confederation and draft a new constitution
- Washington's election - Washington unanimously elected president for United States
- Stamp Act - First direct tax on American colonies to pay for the French and Indian War, taxed paper goods such as newspapers and documents
- Shay's Rebellion - Armed rebellion in Massachusetts as a response to taxes, showed that the United States needed to revise the Articles of Confederation
- Bill of Rights - Compromise with the Anti-Federalists that limited state power and established a set of rights that every United States citizen has
- Proclamation of 1763 - Colonists prohibited from settling West of the Appalacian Mountains
- Boston Tea Party - Colonists dump tea into the Boston harbor to protest "taxation without representation," organized by Sons of Liberty
- Mayflower Compact - First self-government formed in the New World for the Pilgrims
- Seven Years War/French and Indian War - War with the French and Indians on one side and the British and colonists on the other, taxes to pay for the war caused the colonists to resent the British
- American Revolutionary War - War between United States and Great Britain, ends with United States becoming its own nation
- Bacon's Rebellion - Nathaniel Bacon threw a temper tantrum and killed a bunch of natives after Britain refused to drive the natives out
- Pueblo Revolt - Uprising of indigenous people against the Spaniards
- King Philip's War - War between "King Philip" (Metacom) and English settlers, natives rebelled against British authority
- Spanish domination - The Spanish dominated the seas due to their all-powerful Spanish Armada. In 1588, the British sunk the Spanish armada and Spain was never the same.
- Columbus's first voyage - Established a connection between New and Old Worlds