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THE ENLIGHTENMENT
The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith. Using the power of the press. click here -
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French and Indian War
Also known as the Seven Years’ War, this New World conflict marked another chapter in the long imperial struggle between Britain and France. When France’s expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies, a series of battles led to the official British declaration of war in 1756. click me -
Townsend act of 1767
Basically another tax law that taxed goods to american colonist. the british sent their army to enforce non popular laws. -
Boston massacre
The boston massacre was a rebellion against the new stamp act, and the british tax laws. People who called themselves patriots were taunting british guards, and eventually began to physically attack which made the guards act upon this, after all the gunfire and smoke cleared, 5 colonist were found dead.
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Sons of liberty
The Sons of Liberty rallied support for colonial resistance through the use of petitions, assemblies, and propaganda, and they sometimes resorted to violence against British officials. Instrumental in preventing the enforcement of the Stamp Act, they remained an active pre-Revolutionary force against the crown. -
Battles of lexington and concord
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Second Continental Congress meets
The Second Continental Congress and the Declaration of Independence
The Second Continental Congress met inside Independence Hall beginning in May 1775. It was just a month after shots had been fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, and the Congress was preparing for war. They established a Continental army and elected George Washington as Commander-in-Chief, but the delegates also drafted the Olive Branch Petition and sent it to King George III in hopes of reaching a peaceful right. -
Intolerable acts
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Battle of yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown proved to be the decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The British surrender forecast the end of British rule in the colonies and the birth of a new nation—the United States of America.
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Constitutional convention
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They basically did the whole thing, to decide how they were gonna go about laying the laws down and the punishments, ect.
