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Enlightenment
Also known as the age of reason, was an intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe, in the 17th and 18th centuries, with global influences and effects. -
French and Indian war
A theater of the seven years war, which pitted the north American colonies of the British empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various natives American tribes. -
Stamp Act of 1765
Was an act of the parliament of great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper from London which included an embossed revenue stamp. -
Sons of liberty
A loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the thirteen American colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. -
Townshend act of 1767
To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, parliament passed the Townshend acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. Nonimportation. in response to new taxes, the colonies again decided to discourage the purchase of British imports. -
Boston massacre
A confrontation in Boston on march 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. -
Boston tea party
An American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773 by the sons of liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. -
Battle of bunker hill
Was fought on June 17, 1775 during the siege of Boston in the first stage of the American revolutionary war. The battle is named after bunker hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which was peripherally involved. -
Battle of trenton
A small but pivotal American revolutionary war battle on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, new jersey. -
Battle of camden
Also known as the battle of Camden court house, was a major victory for the British in the southern theater of the American revolutionary war. -
Battle of yorktown
The surrender at Yorktown, or the German battle because of the presence of Germans in all three armies, began September 28, 1781 and ended on October 19, 1781. -
Treaty of pairs
The treaty ended the revolutionary war between great Britain and the united states, recognized American independence and established borders for the new nation. -
Great compromise
The Connecticut compromise was an agreement reached during the constitutional convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation each state would have under the united states constitution. -
3/5 compromise
the three-fifths compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 united states constitutional contention over the inclusion of slaves in a state total population. -
Bill of rights adopted
Bill of rights, in the united states, the first 10 amendments to the u.s. constitution, which were adopted as a single unit on December 15, 1791, and which constitute a collection of mutually reinforcing guarantees of individual rights and of limitations on federal and state governments.