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The Enlightenment produced lots of books, essays, inventions, scientific discoveries, laws, wars and revolutions. The American and French Revolutions were directly inspired by Enlightenment
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The Townshend Act initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea to help pay for the American colonies.
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A group of nine British soldiers shot five people of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them.
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The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston.
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They preventing the enforcement of the Stamp Act, they remained active against the crown.
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The Battle of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. It took place in Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge.
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the Declaration of independence was a call for the right to statehood rather than individual liberties.
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the United States' first constitution. It was in force from March 1, 1781, until 1789 when the present-day Constitution went into effect.
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It ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation.
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The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed.
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United States Constitution is the world's longest surviving written charter of government. -
The Bill of Rights is important not only in the freedoms it protects but in its demonstration of America's enduring commitment to self-improvement.