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to approve or enact a legally binding act that would not otherwise be binding in the absence of such approval -
the action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened. -
three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation. -
first British parliamentary attempt to raise revenue through direct taxation of all colonial commercial and legal papers, newspapers, pamphlets, cards, almanacs, and dice. -
to approve or enact a legally binding act that would not otherwise be binding in the absence of such approval. -
an agreement made among the delegates to the Constitutional Convention that the American government would have two houses in Congress. -
the first military clashes of the American Revolutionary War. -
the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. -
Sons of Liberty: The Sons of Liberty were a grassroots group of instigators and provocateurs in colonial America who used an extreme form of civil disobedience—threats. -
the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France -
It was one of the bloodiest battles of the American Revolution. -
a riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons. -
a three-week siege in which they sustained great losses, British troops surrendered to the Continental Army and their French allies. -
The Sons of Liberty were a grassroots group of instigators and provocateurs in colonial America who used an extreme form of civil disobedience—threats, and in some cases actual violence—to intimidate loyalists and outrage the British government. -
the first significant act of defiance by American colonists.