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enlightement
The enlightenment centered on human happiness like liberty and separation of the church and state -
french & Indian war
The war started because of land.French and british goverments said that it is theirs not the other one -
stamp act
The stamp act was to help pay for british troops. The things that was taxed was playing cards and forms of papers -
sons of liberty
sons of liberty is a group of instigators who used form of civil threats to kill loyalists -
townshend act
Townshend act initiated taxes on glass,paper and tea etc.The townshend act was to help pay for expenses -
boston massacre
The boston massacre is where the people peotested the taxes but 5 of them were killed by the british solder -
boston tea party
The colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor do to the suger act -
intolerable act
a series of 4 acts that the british made to punish the colony because of the boston tea party -
the first continental meeting
the meeting were about the future of America -
battle of bunker hill
the patriots may have lost the battle but they showed that they could handle their own -
battle of trenton
George washington's army defeated a garrison of hessian mercenaries at trenton -
battle of comdon
the battle of camden was one of the worst defeats on american army -
battle of yorktown
Washinton defeted lord charles army -
treaty of paris
the ending of the american revolution -
3/5 compromise
3 out of 5 slaves counted when determing a state total population