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Enlightenment
The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, was an intellectual emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith. -
french and indian war
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's -
Townshend Act of 1767
To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. Nonimportation. In response to new taxes, -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty were a grassroots group of instigators and provocateurs in colonial America extreme form of civil disobedience—threats, and in some cases actual violence—to intimidate loyalists and outrage the British government. -
battles of Lexington and
marked the start of the American War of Independence The Battles of Lexington and Concord on 19 April 1775, the famous 'shot heard 'round the world -
battle of bunker hill
On June 17, 1775, New England soldiers faced the British army for the first time in a pitched battle. bloody fighting took place throughout a hilly landscape of fenced pastures that were situated across the Charles River from Boston. -
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 British crown and emphasized their rights as British citizens. The Congress met according to adjournment -
Declaration of Independence adopted
The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. It was engrossed on parchment and on August 2, 1776, delegates began signing it. -
3/5th compromise
determined that three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation. -
Bill of Rights Day
Opportunities to improve our Constitution have been contemplated since its inception. legislatures ratified the first 10 Amendments of the Constitution—the Bill of Rights
