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European politics, philosophy, science and communications were radically reoriented during the course of the “long 18th century” as part of a movement referred to by its participants as the Age of Reason, or simply the Enlightenment
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The French and Indiana war put the colonies of British America against those of New France. It provided Britain with a lot of territorial gains in North America
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The Sons of Liberty was a loosely organized clandestine political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to fight taxation and give colonist more freedom
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The Townshend Acts are a series of British acts of Parliament passed. It put taxes on imported goods.
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The Boston Massacre was a confrontation where British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. -
Political protest that occurred at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were used to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the the Tea Party protest. -
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States -
The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the Revolutionary War -
The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America that united in the American Revolutionary War -
The Battle of Yorktown was 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
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The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America officially ended the American Revolutionary War -
The Great Compromise was an agreement that defined the representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution -
The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed. Although the Convention had been officially called to revise the existing Articles of Confederation, many delegates had much bigger plans
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The Constitution became official when New Hampshire became the final needed colony to Ratify it. -
On December 15, 1791, the new United States of America ratified the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, confirming the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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