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American Enlightenment
The American period of enlightenment was highly based off of the European enlightenment, establishing religious and other freedoms and furthering academic opportunities. The ideals of the enlightenment were also to make America where all minorities and individuals with conflicting ideals could live in peace among each other. Source -
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French and Indian War
The French Indian war or the Seven Year War was a war fought between the French and British colonies, both sides being supported by various Native American tribes. Source -
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Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was a group founded on establishing a colonialist representative in British parliament in both violent and peaceful manners. Later changed its goals to freeing the thirteen colonies from British rule. Source -
Stamp Act of 1765
The Stamp Act, which sought to raise money to pay for this army through a tax on all legal and official papers and publications circulating in the colonies. The Stamp Act Congress passed a "Declaration of Rights and Grievances," which claimed that American colonists were equal to all other British citizens. -
Boston Massacre
On March 5, 1770, seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony. Source -
Boston Tea Party
It showed that the Sons of Liberty identified with America, over their official status as subjects of Great Britain. That evening, a group of 30 to 130 men, some dressed in the Mohawk warrior disguises, boarded the three vessels and, over the course of three hours, dumped all 342 chests of tea into the water. -
First Continental Congress
The first continental congress was a meeting between delegates from 12 of 13 colonies (excluding Georgia). This meeting was about the Intolerable Acts passed by British Parliament, which raised taxes on many goods being imported into the colonies to punish them. Source -
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Common Sense was a 47 page pamphlet published to convince the general population that the American colonies needed to declare their independence. The pamphlet was and still is the best selling document in American history and it kickstarted the revolution.Source -
Declaration of Independence adopted
By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence. Source -
Battle of Yorktown
Supported by the French army and navy, Washington's forces defeated Lord Charles Cornwallis' veteran army dug in at Yorktown, Virginia. Victory at Yorktown led directly to the peace negotiations that ended the war in 1783 and gave America its independence. -
Treaty of Paris signed
This treaty, signed on September 3, 1783, between the American colonies and Great Britain, ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation. Source -
Bill of Rights Signed
The Bill of Rights was a bill of 12 amendments to the constitution signed and sent to the states by George Washington. 3/4ths of the states signed 10 of 12 amendments in a little over a year. Source -
Constitutional Convention
The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed. Although the Convention had been officially called to revise the existing Articles of Confederation, many delegates had much bigger plans. -
Great Compromise
The Great Compromise was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Congress of 1787 [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Compromise#:~:text=The%20Connecticut%20Compromise%20(also%20known,under%20the%20United%20States%20Constitution)