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Enlightenment
The Late Enlightenment impacted and beyond time period was 1780-1815
The Enlightenment impacted the world in many ways. It created religious tolerance, equality, the development of scientific theories, and the concepts of liberty. -
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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years War.
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Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty, a well-organized Patriot premilitary political organization shrouded in secrecy.
More likely, the Boston and New York chapters of the sons of Liberty were deliberately
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Townshend act of 1767
The British American colonists named the acts after Charles Townshend, who sponsored them. The second act often called the Townshend duties or the Revenue Act imposed direct revenue duties that's is duties aimed not merely at regulating trade but at putting money into the British treasury -
Boston Massacre
The Boston massacre was a streets fight that occurred on March 5 1770, between a "patriot" mob.
Several colonists were killed and led this to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.
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Boston Tea Party
The British colonies had raised such a storm of the colonial protest and noncompliance that they were repealed in 1770 saving the duty on tea.
In 1773 Parliament passed a Tea Act designed to aid the financially troubled East India Company by granting it.
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First Continental Congress meet
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Battles of Lexington and Concord
British troops march into the small town of Lexington at about 5:00 am to find themselves faced by a militia company of more 70 men led by Capt.
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Olive Branch Petition sent to England
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5th 1775 to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared.
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Thomas Pain's Common Sense Published
Paine's provocative pamphlet was the first real success in his life.
In 1775 with the encouragement of franklin and Benjamin Rush Paine began writing a pamphlet that would urge American to go beyond merely resisting realize that they weren't British -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown proved to be the decisive engagement of the American Revolution.
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Treaty of Paris Signed
On September 3, 1783, United States and Great Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, Formally ending the Revolutionary war. The treaty of Paris, formally ending the war, was not signed until September 3, 1783. -
Constitution is Ratified
On September 25, 1789, the first congress of the United states adopted 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution-the bill of rights- and sent them to the states for ratification -
Bill of Rights Adopted
The absence of a "bill of rights" turned out to be an obstacle to the Constitution's ratification by the states. The American Bill of Rights, inspired by Jefferson and drafted by James Madison, was adopted, and in 1791 by the Constitution's first ten amendments became the law of the land.
