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Feb 19, 1473
The Beginning of the Enlightenment
The Heliocentric Theory of the solar system was developed by a Polish monk and atsonomer. This theory then replaced the geometric theory of the cosmos. -
The French and Indian War
The war was happened along the frontiers separating New France from the British colonies from Virginia to Nova Scotia. It began with a fight about who is going to have control of the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers. -
The Sugar Acts
This act required merchants to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was a direct tax made by the British Parliament for the colonies of British America. Like many taxes from before, the stamp tax had to be paid in British currency, not in colonial paper money. -
The Tea Act
Parliment planned to raise revenue in the American Colonies, they failed to impose taxes. By them selling tea directly many marchants lost business. -
The Boston Tea Party
Officials in Boston were told to return taxed tea but refused to return the three shiploads of tea to Britain, then a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord was the first military confrontations of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775 -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Congress controlled the colonial war effort, and moved towards independence, accepting the United States Declaration of Independence. -
Commen Sense By Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine wrote a book about how America shouldve gained their independence from Great Britain a long time ago. Many people bought the book and it became popular very fast. -
Declaration of Tndependence
The Thirteen American colonies thought of themselves as independent states. -
Valley Forge
Valley Forge was located in Pennsylvania and was the site of the military camp of the American Continental Army. They werethere over the winter of 1777–1778 during the American Revolutionary War. -
Ratification of the Constitution
The day when the documents of the constitution was approved. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was signed and ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other. -
Shay's Rebellion
Shay's Rebeelion was a armed revolt that took place in central and western Massachusetts. This rebellion was cause by financial problems brought about by a post-war economical depression, and a credit squeeze because of a lack of hard currency. -
Constitutional Convention
This meeting was meant to create a whole new goverment and not fix the existing one. This lead to the signing of America's independence from Britain.
