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The French Revolution, like the American revolution before it, was in large part inspired by the enlightenment. Sometimes refereed to as the age of reason.
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link Also known as the Seven Years’ War, this New World conflict marked another chapter in the long imperial struggle between Britain and France.
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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 case actual violence, to intimidate loyalist and outrage the British government. -
On March 1765, The British Parliament passed the stamp act to help pay for the British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven years war. Here is an excerpt of the Stamp Act: -
link The Townshend acts were a series of measures, passed by the British. The British enacted a series of taxes on the colonies for the purpose of raising revenue. -
The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred March, 1770, On King street in Boston. it began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British solider, but quickly escalated -
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 1773, At griffin's wharf In Boston, Massachusetts. -
link The First Continental Congress convened in Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between September 5 and October 26, 1774. Delegates from twelve of Britain’s thirteen American colonies met to discuss America’s future under growing British aggression.
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The second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia in the summer of 1775, shortly after the war with the British had Begun -
On September 28, 1781, General George Washington, Commanding a force of 17,000 French and Congenital Troops, begins the Saige known as the Battle of Yorktown against British Troops. -
The American Revolution officially comes to an end when representatives of the United states, Great Britain, Spain and France sign the Treaty of of Paris on September 1783. -
The Great Compromise created two legislative Bodies in congress. Also known as the Sherman Compromise or the Connecticut Compromise, the deal combined proposals from the Virginia plan and the New Jersey Plan. link -
3/5 Compromise, agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the Unites States Constitutional Convention (1787) -
The Connotational Convention took place from May 14 to September 17,1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed. -
link On June 21, 1788, the Constitution became the official framework of the government of the United States of America when New Hampshire became the ninth of 13 states to ratify it. -
link basically it talks about how we have amendments and we should follow them