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Scientific Revolution
The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period. -
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Enlightenment
European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were synthesized into a worldview that gained wide assent in the West and that instigated revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics. -
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Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 replaced the reigning king, James II, with the joint monarchy of his protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William of Orange. -
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Seven Years War
Last major conflict before the French Revolution to involve all the great powers of Europe. Generally, France, Austria, Saxony, Sweden, and Russia were aligned on one side against Prussia, Hanover and Great Britain on the other. -
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Stamp Act
It was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London. -
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Boston Tea Party
It was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. -
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First continental congress
The First Continental Congress, which was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes. -
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Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was the representative government that brought the American colonies together as they prepared for their revolution.For years, tensions between the colonists and England had growing over the fact that American colonists had no representation in Parliament. Boston was the epicenter of this unrest, and in 1774 the British passed a series of laws to punish the colony for dumping a boatload of tea into the harbor. -
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American Revolution
American Revolution, also called United States War of Independence or American Revolutionary War, (1775–83), insurrection by which 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies won political independence and went on to form the United States of America. -
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USA Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence, in U.S. history, document that was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and that announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. It explained why the Congress on July 2 “unanimously” by the votes of 12 colonies (with New York abstaining) had resolved that “these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be Free and Independent States.” -
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Treaty of Paris recognized American Independence
The Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States, recognized American independence and established borders for the new nation. The Treaty of Paris, formally ending the war, was not signed until September 3, 1783. -
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Enlightenment Absolutism
Enlightened absolutism or enlightened despotism is a term used to describe the reigns of several 18th century European monarchs.