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The Enlightenment is the intellectual and cultural movement of the 18th century, emphasizing rationality rather than superstition, and science rather than blind faith.
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The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided the British with huge territorial gains in North America. -
The Sons of Liberty were a group of provocateurs in colonial America who used an extreme form of civil disobedience to intimidate loyalists and outrage the British government.
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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. -
https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/townshend-acts. The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. -
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The Boston Massacre was a confrontation on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. -
The Boston Tea Party was an American protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. -
The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
On April 19, 1775, British and American soldiers exchanged fire in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord. -
On January 10, 1776, the publication of Thomas Paine's Common Sense became the first viral mass communications event in America. -
By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. -
On October 19, 1781, British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army of 8,000 men to General George Washington at Yorktown, giving up any chance of winning the Revolutionary War. -
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The Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783, ending the War of the American Revolution. -
The Constitutional Convention took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in the old Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia.