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American Revolution

  • Enlightenment

    This was a part of a movement referred to by the participants as the Age of Reason.
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    Enlightment

    This was a part of a movement referred to by the participants as the Age of Reason.
  • French & Indian War

    was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. ..
  • Sons of liberty

    was a loosely organized clandestine political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights
  • Stamp Act

    was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London
  • Townshend Act

    were a series of unpopular measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods that were important.
  • Boston Massacre

    British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.
  • Boston Tea Party

    was a political protest that at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Battle of Yorktown

    joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. The siege virtually ended military operations in the American Revolution.