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A European Intellectual revolution which took place between1688-1789. Ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were composed into a world view that gained wide conviction and popularity in the west which set of a revolution of developments in the arts, sciences, and politics.https://www.britannica.com/event/Enlightenment-European-history
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Also known as the 7 year war. In this war it was the French and Native Americans vs the British. The British won and gained a huge amount of land in the West as a result. https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/french-and-indian-war
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The Sons of Liberty were a political organization formed in the summer of 1765 to protest the passing of the stamp act of 1765. Their motto was "No taxation without representation" and they were primarily formed to protest against British taxes and laws before the American Revolution. -
The British parliament passed the "Stamp Act" to help pay for British troops. The act required the colonists to pay tax , represented by a stamp , on various forms of paper documents and playing cards.
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The Townshend act of 1767 refers to the British Parliament passing a act which taxed goods to American Colonies . Townshend act was passed as a way of punishing New York for refusing to abide by the quartering act of 1765 and also for the expenses cost on administering the colonies in America. -
It was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770 on king street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American Colonists and a lone British solider but quickly escalated to a chaotic bloody slaughter.
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It was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773 at Griffins Wharf in Boston Massachusetts . American colonists frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing "Taxation without representation" Britain was deep in debt, so British Parliament imposed a series of taxes on American colonists to help pay those debts.
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They were a series of four laws passed by the British parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea party.
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The first meet of Continental Congress in the United States in Philadelphia to discuss to the British governments restraints on trade and representative government after the Boston Tea party -
A battle between Lexington and Concord that signaled the beginning of the American Revolution. A battle between the towns of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/april-19/#:~:text=On%20April%2019%2C%201775%2C%20British,towns%20of%20Lexington%20and%20Concord -
It held 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
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Thomas Paine's Common Sense was published to make critical arguments for declaring independence against Britain. Which talks about all the reasons/points against the King of Britain for why the America is declaring independence. {learn more here}(https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/thomas-paine-publishes-common-sense) -
The 13 American colonist served their political connections to great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence.
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The siege of Yorktown by joint French and American land and sea campaign. The siege ended military operation in the American Revolution -
A plan proposed by roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth, Connecticut's delegates to the constitutional convention , established a two house legislature. It was a provided a dual system of congressional representation. Thee House of Representatives each state would be assigned a number of seats in proportion to its population.
