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Enlightenment
It was a cultural movement that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith. -
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French and Indian War
A war between France and Great Britain to determine control the colonial territory of North America. -
Sons of Liberty
Groups of American colonists who formed to oppose British taxes on the 13 colonies. They fought for the right of the colonists. -
Boston Massacre
An unruly group of colonists taunted British soldiers by throwing snowballs and rocks. The British killed five colonists. It quickly escalated to a bloody slaughter. -
Boston tea party
An incident in which 342 chests of tea that belonged to the British an East Indian Company were thrown from ships into Boston's Harbor by Americans Patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. Then the Americans protested both a tax on tea and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company.
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Battles of Lexington and Concord
The first military clashes of the American Revolutionary War -
Articles of Confederation created
These articles created a sovereign, national government, and limited the rights of the states to conduct their own diplomacy and foreign policy. This served as the United States first constitution. -
Battle of Yorktown
American and French forces, on land and at sea, trapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia. The siege forced the British army to surrender. -
Constitution is ratified
In June the Constitution became the official framework of the governments of the United States of America when New Hampshire became the ninth of 13 states to ratify it. The journey to ratification even when it was a very long difficult long process
[To learn more click here] (https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-day-the-constitution-was-ratified