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Sugar act
Taxing sugar and coffee -
Stamp act
Taxed any paper product -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers open fired -
Boston Tea Party
Hurdled tea into the harbor to protest tax on tea -
The battle of Lexington
Tensions between the colonist and British. -
Declaration of Independence
The declaration shows that we have natural rights. It's our duty to get rid of government who doesn't protect our rights. Popular sovereignty and that people are the ones with power -
Battle of Saratoga
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British surrender at Yorktown,Virginia
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Constitutional convention
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Constitution was ratified
They saw the the government in terms of a social contract in which we the people of the United States entered also seperation of power among the judicial,legislative and executive branches a concept borrowed from Montesquieu.
