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the enlightenment era also known as the age of reason was a cultural and intellectual movement that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith. they questioned accepted knowledge and spread new ideas. many consider this a major turning point in wester civilization.
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The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the american evolution
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Specifically, the act required that, starting in the fall of 1765, legal documents and printed materials must bear a tax stamp provided by commissioned distributors who would collect the tax in exchange for the stamp. The law applied to wills, deeds, newspapers, pamphlets and even playing cards and dice.
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they were a group of instigators in colonial America who used extreme forms of disobedience like threats and sometimes violence to intimidate loyalist and outrage the British government.
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the Townshend acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies. they placed new taxes and took away certain freedoms like new taxes on imported tea, paper, paint, lead, and glass. They even established a board to collect the taxes, set up new courts to prosecute smugglers without using a local jury, and gave British officials the right to search colonist houses and business.
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the acts were 1. the Boston port bill which closed Boston harbor 2. the Massachusetts government act which replaced the elective local government with an appointed one and increased the powers of the military government. 3. the administration of justice act was aimed at protecting British officials charged with capital offense 4. new arrangements for housing troops.
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it was the colonies final attempt to create peace with the British to avoid war.
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Equally important, the Confederation provided the new nation with instructive experience in self-government under a written document. In revealing their own weaknesses, the Articles paved the way for the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and the present form of U.S. government
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the battle of Yorktown was the last major battle.it was the start of the new nations independence.it also cemented George Washington's reputation as a great leader and election win.
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it was an agreement made by the delegates of the constitutional convention saying that three fifths of a states slave population would count for the total population. it was used for determining representation in congress and the tax obligation of each state. -
In the "Great Compromise", every state was given equal representation, previously known as the New Jersey Plan, in one house of Congress, and proportional representation, known before as the Virginia Plan, in the other.
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Perhaps the most famous section of the Bill of Rights is the First Amendment. This right is so important, because it protects our rights to speech, press, petition, religion, and assembly.
