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Enlightenment
It was the intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated Europe in the 17th and 18th century. With many global influences and effects. -
French & Indian War
The French and Indian War lasted til 1754 to 1763 was a theater of the Seven Years War. It pitted through North American colonies of the British Empire. -
Sons of Liberty
Was a loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes or mostly violent, political organizations were active during the Thirteen American Colonies, the rights of the colonies to fight against taxation by the British government. -
Townshend Act of 1767
British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. But American colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw the Acts as an abuse of power. -
Boston Massacre
On the King Street in Boston, it began as a street brawl between American colonists and a single British soldier, but fast enough it escalated to a chaotic and bloody massacre. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a Political protest... In Griffin's Wharf Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists were frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing "taxation without representation," over 342 chests were dumped into the British East India Company harbor. -
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
The Coercive Acts of 1774, also known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a set of four laws passed by the British Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party. -
Battles of Lexington & Concord
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. In Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington. -
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense published
Writer Thomas Paine published his pamphlet "Common Sense," setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence. -
Declaration of Independence adopted
The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776. -
Battle of Yorktown
Cornwallis was in Yorktown because he had been ordered by Clinton during the summer to provide a protected harbor for the British fleet in the lower Chesapeake Bay. Cornwallis chose Yorktown because of its deep-water harbor on the York River. -
Great Compromise
The Connecticut Compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 Constitutional Convention that defined the legislative structure and representation of each state under the United States Constitution. -
Constitution is ratified
When New Hampshire became the ninth of 13 states to ratify the Constitution on June 21, 1788, it became the official framework of the government of the United States of America. However, the road to ratification was long and difficult process. -
Bill of Rights adopted
The amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, were designed to protect the basic rights of U.S. citizens, guaranteeing the freedom of speech, press, assembly, and following of religion. -
When Markiplier hit 10 million subscribers
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What color is your Bugatti??
What is the color?