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1550
The Enlightenment
1550-1800
Enlightenment was a 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 importance in the West and that instigated revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics. -
1550
Scientific Revolution
1550-1700
The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology changed the way people saw nature an ¡d the universe. All this new ideas (of the scientific Revolution) to see the world inspired the enlightenment since even newer ideas and ways of thinking arose from the scientific Revolution. -
Glorious Revolution
• In middle to late 1600's, the central power of England shifted due to religious differences (Catholic vs. Protestant).
• 1688, King James the II was a Catholic tyrant who spent money without the Parliament's permission. Parliament had no power
• James the II persecuted Protestants.
• In January 1689, Parliament offered the throne to Protestants Dutch William and Mary (James II daughter).
• William and Mary accepted it, along with a Bill of Rights -
Enlightened Absolutism
18th & 19th centuries
Enlightened despotism,a form of government y in which absolute monarchs pursued legal, social, and educational reforms inspired by the Enlightenment. Among the most prominent enlightened despots were Frederick II , Peter I, Catherine II (the Great), Maria Theresa, and Joseph II. They typically instituted administrative reform, religious toleration, and economic development but did not propose reforms that would undermine their sovereignty or disrupt the social order. -
Seven Years War
1756-1763
France, Austria, and Russia vs. Great Britain and Prussia
o The war arose out of the attempt of the Austrian Habsburgs to win back the rich province of Silesia
o It also involved overseas colonial struggles between Great Britain and France, two traditional rivals struggling for control of North America (the French and Indian War 1754–63) and India -
Stamp Act
• Britain Parliament's desire for revenue to offset the costs of the Seven Years' War.
• Parliament imposed the Stamp Act on the colonies in 1765.
• British believed this revenue would also pay for the expenses of maintaining the army to protect the colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
Protest
The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest against stamp act by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. Protestants boarded the British ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The British government responded harshly and the episode escalated into the American Revolution. -
First Continental Congress
On September 5, 1774, delegates from each of the 13 colonies met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts and they urged to organize militias. -
American Revolution
1775-1783
American Revolution, also called United States War of Independence or American Revolutionary War, 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies won political independence and went on to form the United States of America. The war followed more than a decade of problems between the British crown and a large and influential segment of its North American colonies that was caused by British attempts to exert control over colonial affairs. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that formed in Philadelphia in May 1775, soon after the launch of the American Revolutionary War. It was after the First Continental Congress, which met between September and October of 1774. George Washington was the commander. -
Declaration of independence
The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important documents in the history of the United States written by Thomas Jefferson. It was an official act taken by all 13 American colonies in declaring independence from British rule.A group of men came together in the summer of 1776 to find ways to become independent from Great Britain. -
Treaty of Paris
It recognized American independence
The Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783, ending the War of the American Revolution. ..The 1783 Treaty was one of a series of treaties signed at Paris in 1783 that also established peace between Great Britain and the allied nations of France, Spain, and the Netherlands.
