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The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, was an intellectual emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith.
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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 -
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, -
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
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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 -
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. -
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 -
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. -
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 -
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. -
determined that three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation.
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Opportunities to improve our Constitution have been contemplated since its inception. legislatures ratified the first 10 Amendments of the Constitution—the Bill of Rights
