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American Revolution

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    The Enlightment

    It was a philosophical movement that dominated in Europe during the 18th century, it was centered around the idea that reason is the primary source of authority and legitimacy
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    Intolerable Act

    it was passed by the British due to the destruction during the Boston Tea Party.
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    French and Indian War

    it pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France
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    Sons of Liberty

    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.
  • Stamp Act of 1765

    Stamp Act of 1765

    It basically said the colonists have to pay a tax and when they paid the tax, they would get a stamp, to prove that they payed it.
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    Townshend Act of 1767

    It was a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. learnmorehere
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.
  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Battles of Lexington and Concord

    It kicked off the American Revolutionary War. Lots of British troops marched from Boston to Concord.
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    Battle of York Town

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    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
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    France gave up all of its territories in mainland North America. The U.S. got recognized.
  • 3/5 Compromise

    3/5 Compromise

    they would use direct taxation and representation to account to 3/5 of the slave population
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    Constitutional Convention

    The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed. Although the Convention had been officially called to revise the existing Articles of Confederation, many delegates had much bigger plan
  • Great Compromise

    Great Compromise

    split the congress into two parts.
  • Bill of Rights adopted

    Bill of Rights adopted

    The United States of America ratified the first ten amendments and it was passed as the Bill of Rights.

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