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Enlightenment
The Enlightenment was the root of many ideas for the American Revolution such as freedom of speech, equality, freedom of press, and religious tolerance. In other words it was the start off for the Revolution
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French and Indian war
The French and Indian war began over a specific issue about the upper Ohio river valley was part of British or French Empire. -
Sons of liberty
Samuel Adams in the thirteen american colonies to fight taxation by the British government. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was a major reason for the American Revolution. It was a direct taxation to colonist, which angered the colonist. Basically its the main cause of why everything happened that happened. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Act took away some of the freedom from the people. It also put taxes on some import goods such as paper, paint, tea, lead, and glass. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was when a group of British soldiers opened fire on a group of colonist American.killing five of them. This helped the colonist to spark together, later influencing the American Revolution -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea party was a political protest for all the taxing. They dumped 342 chest of tea into the harbor. this was important because it made even more tension then there was before between America and British. -
First Continental Congress meet
The First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia. To discuss America's future under growing British aggression. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The first military engagements of the american revolutionary war. -
Second Continental Congress meet
To plan further responses if the British government had not repealed or modified the acts. -
Declaration of Independent adopted
The 13 American colonies served their political connections to great Britain. The declaration summarized the colonists motivations for seeking independence. -
Battle of Yorktown
The British tried to surrender to the french, but the french made them to surrender to the Americans. -
Great compromise
The agreement that large and small states reached during the constitution convention of 1787 that each state would have under the United States. -
Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia was met in 1787 to address the problem of the weak government that existed under the Article of Confederation.
