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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.click here for more -
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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was a fight for supremacy of the Ohio Valley region, between the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers click here for more -
The Stamp act of 1765
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Townshend Act of 1767
governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea -
Boston Massacre
seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony -
Boston Tea Party
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Second Continental Congress meets
The Second Continental Congress took place inside Independence Hall, just a month after shots been fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. Delegates from the Thirteen Colonies met up united in support of the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War. -
Olive Branch Petition Sent to England
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5, 1775, to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. The Petition emphasized their loyalty to the British crown and emphasized their rights as British citizens -
Articles of confederation created
contained the terms, agreed by the 13 new states, by which they agreed to participate in a centralized form of government, in addition to their self- rule -
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Battle of Yorktown
British troops surrendered to the Continental Army and their French allies Click here for more -
Treaty of Paris Signed
signed on September 3, 1783, between the American colonies and Great Britain, ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation -
The Great Compromise
The Connecticut Compromise was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of Compromise, each state would get two representatives in the Senate and a variable number of representatives in the House in proportion to its population -
Constitution is Ratified
They bypassed the state legislatures, reasoning that their members would be reluctant to give up power to a national government. Instead, they called for special ratifying conventions in each state. Ratification by 9 of the 13 states enacted the new government. -
Bill of Rights Adopted
It spells out Americans' rights in relation to their government. It guarantees civil rights and liberties to the individual—like freedom of speech, press, and religion. click here for more -
3/5 Compromise
It determined that three out of every five slaves were counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation.