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The Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries with global influences and effects. -
The Sons of Liberty was 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. -
The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on king street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British Soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter. -
The boston tea party was an american political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. -
The 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. -
The battle of Yorktown proved to be the decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The British surrender forecast the end of British rule in the colonies and the birth of a new nation-the United States of America. -
It provided a dual system of congressional representation. -
It determined that three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation. -
Three-fourths of the existing State legislatures ratified the first 10 Amendments of the Constitution.