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Enlightenment
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French and Indian war
click here The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763.The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war’s expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. -
Sons of Liberty
click hereThe Sons of Liberty was a secret organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. -
Townshend Act of 1767
click hereThe Townshend Acts were a series of British Acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 and relating to the British in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. -
First Continental congress meets
click here The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. -
Battles of Lexington & Concord
click here 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. -
Thomas Pine's Common Sense published
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Great Compromised
click here The Connecticut Compromise (also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman Compromise) was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
