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Enlightenment
The Enlightenment was about intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith. Rationalism is the idea that humans are capable of using their faculty of reason to gain knowledge.
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French & Indian war
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years War.British colonial forces led by Lieutenant Colonel George Washington attempted to expel the French in 1754 but didn't have a lot of people and defeated by the french.
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sons of liberty
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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. The goal of the radicals was to push moderate colonial leaders into a confrontation with the Crown. -
Townshend act of 1767
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The Boston tea party
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First Continental meets
The colony of Connecticut was the first to respond.
The Congress first met in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774, with delegates from each of the 13 colonies except
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Battels of Lexington & Concord
the battle start of the American Revolutionary war on April 19, 1775. The British Army set out from Boston to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington as well as to destroy the Americans store of weapons and ammunition in Concord.
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Second continental congress meets
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declaration of independence adopted
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Articles of Confederation created
The Articles of Confederation created a national government composed of a Congress, which had the power to declare war, appoint military officers, sign treaties, make alliances, appoint foreign ambassadors, and manage relations with Indians.
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Battle of York town
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On September 28, 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War. -
Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention (also known as the Philadelphia Convention, the Federal Convention, or the Grand Convention at Philadelphia) took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in the old Pennsylvania State Hous.
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Great Compromise
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They met in the middle. The Great Compromise was forged in a heated dispute during the 1787 Constitutional Convention: States with larger populations wanted congressional representation based on population, while smaller states demanded equal representation.To keep the convention from dissolving into chaos, the founding fathers came up with the Great Compromise.. -
3/5 Compromise
Three-fifths compromise, compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.
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