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French and Indian War.
The French and Indian War was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes. -
American Enlightenment.
The American Enlightenment was a period of intellectual ferment in the thirteen American colonies in the 18th to 19th century, which led to the American Revolution, and the creation of the United States of America. -
Sons of Liberty.
The Sons of Liberty was a loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. It played a major role in most colonies in battling the Stamp Act in 1765. -
Stamp Act of 1765
The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British Parliament. -
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Townshend Act of 1767
The Townshend Acts or Townshend Duties, refers to a series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 introducing a series of taxes and regulations to fund administration of the British colonies in America. They are named after the Chancellor of the Exchequer who proposed the program. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. -
First Continental Congress meets.
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. -
Olive Petition sent to England.
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5th, 1775 to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. The Petition emphasized their loyalty to the British crown and emphasized their rights as British citizens.
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Second Continental Congress meets
The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America that united in the American Revolutionary War.
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Battles of Lexington & Concord.
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge. -
Thomas Paine's 'Common Sense'
On January 9, 1776, writer Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet “Common Sense,” setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence. -
Articles of Confederation created.
The Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777. This document served as the United States' first constitution. -
Great Compromise.
The Great Compromise was a solution where both large and small states would be fairly represented by creating two houses of Congress.
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Bill of Rights adopted.
On June 8, 1789, Representative James Madison introduced a series of proposed amendments to the newly ratified U.S. Constitution. That summer the House of Representatives debated Madison's proposal, and on August 24 the House passed 17 amendments to be added to the Constitution.
