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American Revolution
1765–1783 ideological and political movement in North America
American Revolutionary War
American War of Independence 1775–1783
Bacon's Rebellion
1675-1676 Virginia rebellion against the colonial government
Battles of Lexington and Concord
First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War (1775)
Battles of Saratoga
Battle and major turning point of the American Revolutionary War
British colonization of the Americas
American Colonies of England and then Great Britain and the United Kingdom
Danish colonization of the Americas
Danish colonies in the Americas
Dutch colonization of the Americas
Dutch colonies in the Americas
European colonization of the Americas
Settlement and conquest of North and South America by Europeans
First Great Awakening
Series of Christian revivals in Britain and its thirteen Colonies in the 1730s and 1740s
French and Indian War
North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War
French and Indian Wars
1688-1763 series of military conflicts in North America
French colonization of the Americas
Part of France's colonial empire
Haitian Revolution
1791–1804 slave revolt in Saint-Domingue
Jeffersonian democracy
American political persuasion of the 1790s until the 1820s
Liberty Bell
Symbol of American independence and liberty
Population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Portuguese colonization of the Americas
Portuguese colonization in South America and attempts in North America
Quasi-War
Undeclared naval war between France and the US, 1798–1800
Russian colonization of North America
Salem witch trials
Series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts
Shays's Rebellion
Armed uprising in western Massachusetts (1786–1787)
Siege of Yorktown
Last major battle of the American Revolutionary War
Spanish colonization of the Americas
Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
16th-century Spanish invasion of Mesoamerica
Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire
Period of the Spanish conquest in South America
Spanish conquest of the Maya
Conquest dating from 1511 to 1697
Swedish colonies in the Americas
17th-century colonies of Sweden in the Americas