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Sugar Act
Taxing sugar and coffee -
Stamp Act
The stamp act taxed any paper products, newspaper, playing cards and etc -
Boston Massacre
A incident on King Street by the British, in 1770. In which the British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a month who threw snowballs full of rocks at the British. It resulted in 5 deaths and many casualties. -
Boston Tea Party
Some colonist hurled a cargo of British tea into the harbor to protect a tax on tea. -
The Battle Of Lexington and Concord
This war became known as the American Revolution. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration reflects several ideas of John Locke: Government's duty to protect the people's natural rights. People have the rights "to alter or abolish" unjust governments. Popular sovereignty, which state that all government power come from the people. -
Battle of Saratoga
Marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. From September 19 - October 17,1777 -
British Surrender at Yorktown, Virginia
The siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown, German Battle or the siege of Little York , ending on October 19,1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive. -
Constitutional Convention
Took place from May 25 to September 17,1787, in the old Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Ratification of the US Constitution
When a bill of rights was proposed in Congress in 1789, North Carolina ratified the Constitution.
1) The Constitution's englightment thinking has inspired many other countries to use some of the ideas that it has in it.
2) ideas in the Constitution came from several different Englightment thinkers ( John Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire, and Beccaria).
