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#1. Sugar Act: 1764, Passed by Parliament, placed an indirect tax on sugar being shipped into colonial areas. Moved smuggling cases to harsh courts in England.
#2. Proclamation of 1763, Passed by England to keep peace and prevent more debt. Colonists are unable to cross the Appalachian Mountains.
#3. Oct 26, 1770
First Continental Congress: 1774,
First time represntatives came together(colonists able to protect themselves). Representatives in all colonies except Georgia. This occurred in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
#4. Jul 4, 1775
Declaration of Independence: 1776. Written after battles of Lexington and Concord and explained why colonies had a right to declare their independence. Written by Thomas Jefferson with philosophical influences by John Locke.
#5. 1870-1900
From the era of Reconstruction to the end of the 19th century, the United States underwent an economic transformation marked by the maturing of the industrial economy, the rapid expansion of big business, the development of large-scale agriculture, and the rise of national labor unions and industrial conflict. Indispensable to this growth and development were an unprecedented surge in immigration and urbanization after the Civil War. American society was in transition. Immigrants arriving from southern and eastern Europe, from Asia, Mexico, and Central America, were creating a new American mosaic. And the power of Anglo-Saxon Protestants--once so dominant--began to wane.
