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A tax was placed on molasses ans sugar
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Colonists were required to pay for a stamp or seal to be placed on all paper goods,including legal documents, licences, newspapers, pamphlets and playing cards.
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an angry mob of colonists threw snowballs at soldiers and the soldiers fired; killing five people
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Sons of Liberty, dressed as Native Americans, and dumped the contents of 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor
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the first shots of the American Revolutionary war were fired in this battle
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The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the second Continental Congress at the Pennsylvania State house in Philadelphia. The declaration reflects on enlightenment because it is based on basic reason. We have these rights simply because we are human The declaration got most of its laws form thinkers like Locke and Mostequieu. That they have a rights or liberty and speech.
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It marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory of the Americans over the in the American Revolutionary War.
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The British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his troops in Virginia. He brought 8,000 troops to Yorktown. They expected British ships to arrive and they never did.
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The Annapolis convention, delegates from five states called for a constitutional convention in order to discuss possible improvements to the Articles of Confederation.
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It took ten months for the first nine states to approve the Constitution. The first state to ratify, was Deleware. One way it reflected elightnement was because they believed people should have the right to choose their own leader and another one was the belief of separation of power through checks and balances.
