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The philosophy movement, which introduced ideas of gods in the West. This affected art and politics
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7 Seven-Year War between the French and the British. Conflict caused by the French settling on the Ohio River Valley.
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It made colonists pay taxes on all printed materials.
colonists who were facing other taxes and viewed the Stamp Act as a direct attack -
The Sons of Liberty were a secret revolutionary group in colonial America. They played a crucial role in opposing British taxation and policies, such as the Stamp Act -
The Boston Massacre was a fight between British soldiers and American colonists. Tensions between the colonists and British soldiers had been building for some time due to the British military presence in Boston -
American colonists were angry with British rule and taxation without their consent. They boarded British ships carrying tea. They smashed open 342 chests of tea and dumped them into Boston Harbor in protest. The british were mad and they passed the Coercive Acts. -
The Intolerable Acts, also known as the Coercive Acts, were a series of four acts passed by the British in 1774 to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. They fueled colonial unity and resistance, ultimately contributing to the outbreak of the American Revolution. -
The Battles of Lexington Concord on April 19, 1775, were the first conflicts of the American Revolutionary War. They signaled the start of armed resistance against British rule -
The colonial representatives met up and managed the American Revolution and transitioned the colonies towards independence. They made the Continental Army and appointed George Washington as commander. -
Letter written by the Second Continental Congress sent to King George III of Great Britain in the last attempt at reconciliation, the king refused to receive the request, and the colonies declared independence a year later -
The Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming the thirteen American colonies as independent from Great Britain. -
George Washington teamed up with the French, and they had a code word, Rochambeau, and when he said it, they were to surround the British.
The French, led by Admiral de Grasse, covered the York River, preventing any British ships from getting any more supplies -
The Treaty of Paris, signed in 1783, formally ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States. -
The 3/5 Compromise happened during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, said that three out of every five enslaved people would be counted when determining a state's total population -
The ratification of the U.S. Constitution was a process where each state voted on whether to adopt the new framework of government.