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The Enlightenment – the great 'Age of Reason' – is defined as the period of rigorous scientific, political and philosophical discourse that characterised European society during the 'long' 18th century from the late 17th century to the ending of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815.
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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 Revolution.
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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 Boston Massacre was a confrontation , in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.
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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. -
Intolerable Acts, also called Coercive Acts, in U.S. colonial history, four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament in retaliation. -
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5th 1775 to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. The Petition emphasized their loyalty to the British crown and emphasized their rights as British citizens. The Congress met according to adjournment -
The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States However ratification of the Articles of Confederation by all thirteen states did not occur until March 1, 1781 -
The siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown, or the German battle. Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of the American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington -
signed by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783, ending the War of the American Revolution. -
an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the counting of slaves in determining a state's total population. -
The Great Compromise created two legislative bodies in Congress According to the Great Compromise there would be two national legislatures in a bicameral Congress. Members of the House of Representatives would be allocated according to each state's population and elected by the people
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Constitution became the official framework of the government of the United States of America when New Hampshire became the 9 of 13 states to ratify it.
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James Madison proposed to the amendments to both house and congress. These were amendments two through 12, which focused on human right.
