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Sugar Act
Parliament passed the sugar act, taxing sugar and coffee. -
Stamp Act
the stamp act taxed any paper product, newspaper,playing cards, etc... -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident in 1770. In which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob who threw snowballs full of rocks at the British. This event resulted in 5 deaths and many casualties. -
Boston Tea Party
Some colonist hurled a cargo of British tea into the harbor to protest a tax on tea. -
The battle of Lexington and Concord
This battle was a start of the American Revolution. It was a battle that had tensions between the colonist and the British which finally erupted into war. -
Continental Congress
the second continental congress met and voted to declare independence from Britain. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. From September 19- October 17, 1777. -
British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia
The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the Surrender at Yorktown, German Battle or the Siege of Little York, ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive ... -
Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in the old Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Ratification of the US Constitution
When a bill of rights was proposed in Congress in 1789, North Carolina ratified the Constitution.
1) The constitution's enlightenment thinking has inspired many other countries to use some of the ideas that it has in it.
2) Ideas in the constitution came from several different Enlightenment thinkers. (John Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire, and Beccaria.) -
Declaration of Independence
.One idea is that all people are entitled to certain rights just by virtue of being human.
.Another is the belief that a government’s legitimacy comes from the consent of the governed.
.The Declaration of Independence incorporates the Enlightenment idea that a government’s main purpose is to protect the rights of the people.
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