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The Enlightenment was a powerful intellectual movement that firmly established reason as superior to superstition, science as a decisive alternative to blind faith, and championed individualism and skepticism towards authority. -
The imposition of a direct tax on the American colonies without consent was a spark for the American Revolution, igniting fierce protests and resistance as colonists rallied against tyranny and fought for their rights. -
The Sons of Liberty was a group that aimed to protect colonial rights and liberties. This group fought against the British and the taxation -
The Townshend Acts, enacted by the British Parliament in 1767, imposed taxes on goods in the American colonies, including tea, glass, lead, and paper. -
Confrontation between a lone British sentry and a crowd of colonists escalated after British police killed five colonists -
American colonists boarded three ships the Dartmouth, Eleanor, and Beaver and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. -
The Intolerable Acts were a series of four decisive laws enacted to punish Massachusetts for its role in the Boston Tea Party. -
The British won, but it was strategically significant for the Americans. It boosted their confidence and helped support independence. It revealed the British future strategies. -
A small battle that boosted the morale of the american troops -
It was a pamphlet that pushed for American independence from British rule. He argued that the colonies weren't getting representation while under the rule of the British, and they needed independence -
the worst defeat for the America in the Revolutionary War. The battle showed weakness of the Continental Army in the South carolina -
victory for the American Army and their French allies, ending combat operations in the American Revolutionary War. British resolve to continue the war and paved the way for peace negotiations.
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The treaty decisively brought the war between Britain and the United States to a close, firmly establishing America as an independent nation -
The United States Constitution was decisively established to replace the ineffective Articles of Confederation, thereby creating a stronger and more effective federal government.
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enslaved people were counted as a 3/5 of a person for purposes of taxation and representation in the U.S. Congress.