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Enlightenment
The Enlightenment was an intellectual and cultural movement that promoted reason over superstition and science over blind faith. -
French & Indian War
The French and Indian War was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people of a crowd of three or four hundred who were disturbing them verbally and throwing various rockets. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an American political protest by the Sons of Liberty. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
New England soldiers faced the British Army in a field battle for the first time. Bloody fighting took place in a hilly landscape of fenced-in grasslands across the Charles River from Boston. -
Olive Branch Petition sent to England
The Petition emphasized their loyalty to the British crown and emphasized their rights as British citizens. The Congress met according to adjournment. -
Battle of Yorktown
Siege of Yorktown joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. The siege virtually ended military operations in the American Revolution. -
Treaty of Paris signed
This treaty between the American colonies and Great Britain ended the American Revolution and officially recognized the United States as an independent nation. -
Constitutional Convention
The point of the event was deciding how America should be governed. Although the convention had been formally convened to amend the existing statutes of the Confederacy, many delegates had much larger plans. -
3/5 Compromise
The three-fifths compromise was reached among the state delegates. It noted that three out of five slaves were counted in determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation. -
Great Compromise
The Convention accepted the Great Compromise by a single vote. -
Bill of Rights adopted
Three-fourths of existing state legislatures approved the first 10 amendments to the constitution.
