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The Beginning of the Enlightenment
The Begginning Of the Enlightenment was when people have a new view in life on many things including Aesthetics, ethics, government, and religion -
The French Indian War
The frecnh and indian war is the name for a war that happened between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1756 -
The Stamp Act
The stamp act was a new tax that was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
The sugar Acts
The sugar Act is mainly about the taxes on the importation of foreign molasses and how they cut the taxes -
The Tea Act
The tea act at first was to impose no new taxes but instead of that, it created the final sparks to the revolutionary movement in Boston -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston tea party is about how people rebelled about the taxes on tea, and many other things, an on the night of November 29th, they dressed up as indians, and pured all the tea out in to thhe harbor that the boat was docked in. -
Battle of Lexingtonand Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
The Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was presided over by John Hancock, who replaced Peyton Randolph, and included some of the same delegates as the first, -
Thomas Paine Publishes Common Sence
Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
Made by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument. -
Valley Forge
Valley Forge was basically a log cabin camp where george washigntons army stayed at for many days, suffering in the cold and harsh weathers that mother nature brought to them -
Treaty Of Paris
The Treaty of Paris ended the 7 year war which was The french and indian war. -
Shay's Rebellion
Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787. -
The Constitutional Convention
The constitutional Convention was one of the most important time in american history, were important people of that time would write one of the most important documents ever created. The Constitution -
Ratification of the Constitution
On September 17, 1787, a majority of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention approved the documents over which they had labored since May.
