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By 1757 Britain controlled ___ English colonies on the eastern coast of the present United States.

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The ________ guaranteed freedom of religion, speech, press, the right to bear arms, and trial by jury.

Bill of Rights

On July 4, 1776, The second Continental Congress approved of the ________.

Declaration of Independence

The proposed Constitution created a ______ system, in which the national and state governments shared power.

Federal

The united Kingdom of ____ came into existence in 1707, when the government of England and Scotland were united.

Great Britain

Fighting finally erupted between colonist and the British army in April 1775 in ____ and ____.

Lexington, Concord

In 1765 Parliament imposed the ____, which required legal documents to carry a stamp showing that tax had been paid to _____

Stamp act, Britain

The _______, signed in 1783, recognized the ______ of the American colonies and granted American control of territory to the ______ river.

Treaty of Paris, independence, Mississippi

When General Cornwallis was forced to surrender to the American and French forces at ____, the British decided to end the war.

Yorktown

After the Seven Years War, British leader wanted to get new _____ from the colonies.

revenues