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American Revolution

  • The Enlightenment

    The Enlightenment
    The Enlightenment was about intellectual movement emphasizing reason, individualism, and skepticism.
  • French & Indian War

    French & Indian War
    A War between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years War. The French and Indian War began in 1754, and ended in 1763.
  • Stamp Act of 1765

    Stamp Act of 1765
    The Stamp Act of 1765 passed down by British Parliament. The new tax was imposing on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper. Primary Source is https://www.gilderlehrman.org/content/stamp-act-1765. It's by Georgii III Regis. The paper says that "An act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties, in the British colonies and plantations in America. "
  • Townshend Act of 1767

    Townshend Act of 1767
    The Townshend act of 1767 was about the laws that were passing down by British government. The Laws included new taxes on paper, paint, lead, glass and tea.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    The Boston Massacre was when British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a group of American colonists and killed five men. https://www.ducksters.com/history/american_revolution/boston_massacre.php
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Boston Tea Party was protested by colonists in Boston against the Tea Tax that passed down by British governments. One Of the primary sources of the Boston Tea Party was David Ramsay, A Sermon on Tea, essay, 1774. http://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/crisis/text6/ramsaysermontea.pdf
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    Intolerable acts were to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party and protested in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods.
  • Second Continental Congress meets

    Second Continental Congress meets
    Second Continental Congress meeting was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies. They started the meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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    Declaration of independence adopted

    Declaration of independence was the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House. The Declaration of Independence was to make sure that people have Inalienable rights that included Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness.
  • The End Of Battle Of Yorktown

    The End Of Battle Of Yorktown
    In Yorktown, Virginia, there was a victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops.
  • Treaty Of Paris Signed

    Treaty Of Paris Signed
    King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America which ended the American Revolutionary War.
  • 3/5 compromise

    3/5 compromise
    The Three-fifths Compromise was enacted. Delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia that year accepted a plan determining a state's representation in the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • The End Of Constitutional Convention

    The End Of Constitutional Convention
    gathering that drafted the Constitution of the United States. all states were invited to send delegates. The convention was in Philadelphia, designed a government with separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
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    Constitutional Is Ratified

    It took along time for the first nine states to approve the Constitution. It actually took 10 months. The first state to ratify was Delaware, by a unanimous vote. The featured document is an endorsed ratification of the federal Constitution by the Delaware convention.