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The Stamp Act of 1765 can also be called the Duties in American Colonies Act 1765. It was the first act that imposed taxes on all paper documents in the colonies. The act was intended to pay for the British troops during the Seven Year's War. -
The Enlightenment period constructed various books, essays, scientific laws, wars and revolutions, 5 major Enlightenment thinkers include Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Isaac Newton, and Thomas Jefferson. Isaac Newton developed the Laws of Motion and his law of Universal Gravity in Physics, Various discoveries such as rationalism, empiricism, progressivism, and cosmopolitanism. -
The Boston Massacre happened on March 5th, 1770. It was caused by some American's and a single British soldier, what was started as a street brawl it turned into a riot. The colonists' did not like the laws the British tried to enforce, such as the Stamp Act and Townshend Act. The event further provoked the colonists' to fight for independence. -
The Boston Tea Party was a protest that happened at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, it protested against the British for taxing without representation. The American colonists dumped 343 chests full of tea, that were imported by the British, as a result the British shut down Boston Harbor until all the tea was paid for. -
The Intolerable Acts were a sequence of 4 laws, to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay considering the Boston Tea Party, passed by the British Parliament. This event happened from March to September of the year 1774. -
In May 1775, the Second Continental Meeting was held in the Independence Hall. There were 5 delegates in the meeting in which includes Benjamin Franklin, John and Sam Adams, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, also George Washington. The meeting was made in order to consider the British's restraints on trade and representative government after the Boston Tea Party occurred. -
The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress, the purpose of this was for the 13 colonies to sever their connections with the British and gain independence from its rule. -
This battle occurred in New Jersey on the 26th of December, 1776. General George Washington led his men across the ice Delaware River, through a 10 mile march to Trenton, New Jersey. There they surprised a garrison of 1,500 Hessians and defeated them. That battle earned George Washington his respect from his soldiers and brought back the Continental Army. -
It was a battle where Continental General Horatio Gates and his men fought against British General Charles Cornwallis. It was a terrible loss for Gates and his army, he had overestimated the availability of his soldiers, and he ended up getting replaced by Nathaniel Greene. -
A force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, who were lead by George Washington, began a siege against the British General George Cornwallis and his troops on September 28, 1781. The battle ended with Lord Charles Cornwallis' army being defeated by George Washington and his men. -
It was a treaty that was meant to end the American Revolution and to acknowledge the U.S. as its own independent nation, it was signed on the 3rd of September, 1783 by the representatives of the United States and representatives of King George III of Great Britain. -
The 3/5 Compromise was meant for taxation and representation of the slave population. Only three-fifths of the slave population would be counted. This lasted during the 1787. -
The Great Compromise was forged by the founding fathers because the larger states wanted more representation while the smaller states wanted equal representation. It was created during the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The founding fathers who made up the Great Compromise include Roger Sherman, Connecticut politician. -
In Philadelphia, 55 delegates, from all the states except for Rhode Island, revised 5 major issues on the Articles of Confederation. It had issues such as representation, state versus powers, executive powers, slavery, and commerce. In conclusion, they decided to set aside the Articles of Confederation and create a ne constitution. -
The Constitution was not ratified until 1788, but is was written in 1787. Delaware was the first to ratify the Constitution along with Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, and Connecticut. Some states voiced that the protection for the rights including freedom of speech, religion, and press.