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enlightenment
a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition -
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French and Indian war
The French and Indian war was over weather the French or English owned the upper Ohio river valley -
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the sons of liberty
An organization formed to combat the stamp act in 1765 -
the stamp act of 1765
tax on all materials printed for commercial and legal use in the colonies to help pay for the French and Indian war -
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Townshend acts
Four acts that were passed by British parliament to assert what is historically correct to assert authority over the colonists -
First continental congress meeting
The first Continental Congress met in Pittsburg, Philadelphia in the fall of 1774 -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
This was what started the revolutionary war, Initially being little brawls but grew -
Thomas Pain publishes Common Sense
Common Sense is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine advocating independence from Great Britain -
Articles of confederation are written
A written document that explained what the national government of the United States stood for -
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The articles of confederation
A written document that explained what the national government of the United States stood for -
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the battle of Yorktown
After three weeks of bombardment the British troops surrendered to the colonial army and their French allies. -
treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris is signed ending the revolutionary war -
the great compromise
provided a dual system of congressional representation -
