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Enlightenment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment?scrlybrkr=6bda5cf2
The Age of Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. -
French & Indian War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_War
The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by American Indian allies. -
Sons of Liberty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was a secret revolutionary organization that was founded by Samuel Adams in the Thirteen American Colonies to advance the rights of the European 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 1765
On March 22, 1765, the British Parliament passes the Stamp Act to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the seven years of war. -
Townshend Act of 1767
https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/townshend-acts
The Townshend Acts or Towshend Duties, refers to events of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 relating to the British colonies in America. They are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer who proposed the program. -
Boston Massacre
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The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot on King street in Boston. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Boston Tea Party
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The Boston Tea Party was in protest of the British Parliments Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. The laws were meant to punch the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea party protest. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_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. -
Second Continental Congress meet
The Second Continental Congress meeting was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started in Philadelphia, and soon after the American Revolutionary War begin. It succeeded the First Continental Congress. -
Olive Branch Petition sent to England
https://historyofmassachusetts.org/what-was-the-olive-branch-petition/
The Olive Branch Petition was a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution. It was a document in which the colonists pledged their loyalty to the crown and asserted their rights as British citizens. The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5, 1775. -
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The Battle of Yorktown
Click here On September 28, 1781 General George Washington commanded a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops which begins the Battle of Yorktown. A decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops. -
3/5 Compromise
The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise reached among states delegates during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention. The agreement between the Northern and Southern States, of the slave population. -
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Constitutional Convetion
The Constitutional Convention was a decision of how America was going to be governed although the Convention had been officially called to revise the existing Articles of the Confederation. -
Constitutional Ratified
The Constitution became the official framework of the government of the United States of America when New Hampshire became in the ninth of 13 states to ratify it. -
Bill of Rights Adopted
https://www.constitutionfacts.com/us-constitution-amendments/bill-of-rights/
On September 25, 1789, Congress transmitted to the state Legislatures twelve proposed amendments to the Constitution. Numbers three through twelve were adopted by the states to become the United States (U.S.) Bill of Rights, effective December 15, 1791
