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The Age of Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that Dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th nd 18th centuries.
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The French and Indian war pitted the colonies of British America against those of new France. Each side supported by military units from the parent country and by native American allies.
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On March 22, 1765, the British Parliament passed the "Stamp Act" to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War. The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/ -
Will sons of liberty was a loosely organized clandestine political and also a organiztion active in the 13 colonies. Wikiedia.org -
Will the Townshend act was a series of measures, passed by the British parliament. They had good taxed and to imported the American colonies. history.com
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The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter. https://www.history.com -
American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,”. Dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. https://www.history.com -
In U.S. colonial history, four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament in retaliation for acts of colonial defiance, together with the Quebec Act establishing a new administration for the territory ceded to Britain after the French and Indian War. https://www.britannica.com -
The First continental congress meets was in carpenters hall in Philadephia and it was also in Pennsylvania. They all meet to discuss American Colonies met to talk about future under growing British aggression. Mountvernon.org -
Fought on April 19 and kicked off him American revolutionary war and the tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13th.History.com -
It ws a adopted by congress to be sent to be the king as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
The Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia in the summer of 1775, shortly after the war with the British had begun. It was preceded by the First Continental Congress in the fall of 1774. https://www.history.com/ -
He publishes his pamphlet common sense setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence. Although little used today, pamphelts were an important medium for the spread of ideas in the 16th through 19th centuries.History.com -
By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress. By declaring themselves an independent nation, the American colonists were able to confirm an official alliance with the Government of France and obtain French assistance in the war against Great Britain. https://history.state.gov/
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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.
