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The Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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The Sons of Liberty was a loosely organized clandestine political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. -
The Stamp Act help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War. The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
The Township acts were a series of measures, passed by the British parliament. The British taxed good imported over by American colonies.
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Between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
American colonists dumped shiploads of tea into the water to protest a British tax on tea. This event was important because it fueled the tension that had already begun between Britain and America. -
The First Continental Congress convened in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. it is from twelve of Britain's thirteen American colonies met to discuss America's future under growing British aggression.clickhere
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The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
The congress recommended that colonies form their own governments, the Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson and revised in committee.
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Siege 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. -
In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there. -
An agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the counting of slaves in determining a state's total population. This count would determine the number of seats in the House of Representatives and how much each state would pay in taxes. -
the Philadelphia Convention, or the Grand Convention at Philadelphia) took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in the old Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia.
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The constitution ratified because the official framework of the government of the United States of America and when New Hampshire became the ninth of 13 states to ratify it.
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3/4 of the states had ratified 10 of these, now known as the Bill of Rights.
