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Enlightenment
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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.
https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/french-and-indian-war
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Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty were a grassroots group of instigators and provocateurs in colonial America who used an extreme form of civil disobedience—threats, and in some cases actual violence—to intimidate loyalists and outrage the British government. -
Stamp Act of 1765
On March 22, 1765, the British Parliament passed the “Stamp Act” to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years’ War. The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards.
http://ap.gilderlehrman.org/resource/stamp-act-1765#:~:text=On%20March%2022%2C%201765%2C%20the,%2C%20documents%2C%20and%20playing%20cards.
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Townshend Act of 1767
The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. But American colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw the Acts as an abuse of power.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Townshend-Acts
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Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.
https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-massacre
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/road-to-revolution/the-american-revolution/a/the-boston-massacre -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.
https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party
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Intolerable Acts
Coercive Acts
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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.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Battles-of-Lexington-and-Concord
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Declaration of Independence Adopted
Declaration of independence
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Battle of Yorktown
Ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, The Battle of Yorktown was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British army commanded by British peer and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/revolutionary-war/battles/yorktown
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Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Paris
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The Great Compromise
Also known as the Connecticut Compromise. It was a debate about their representation in the newly proposed senate. -
Bill of rights adopted
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.
