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Enlightenment also known as the age of reason which emphasized reason, science and individual liberty, promoting ideals like religious tolerance and constitutional government. they questioned traditional authorities and understanding the world.
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The French and Indian War was a North American conflict between Great Britain and France, with both sides getting support from various Native American tribes. It was part of a larger global conflict known as the Seven Years' War. The war stemmed from long-standing tensions over land and trade
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The Sons of Liberty were a group of American colonists who formed to protest British rule and taxation, playing a key role in the lead-up to the American Revolution. They were a secret, often radical, organization that used various tactics, including boycotts, protests, and even violence, to challenge British policies. -
American colonists, protesting British taxation without representation, dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor -
It brought together delegates from twelve of the thirteen American colonies to discuss their grievances against the British government and formulate a unified response to what they considered oppressive acts.
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seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony -
The Olive Branch Petition was a document adopted by the Second Continental Congress sent to King George III as a final attempt to avoid war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies. It expressed the colonists' loyalty to the Crown and requested a peaceful resolution to the escalating conflict. However, the King rejected the petition and declared the colonies to be in rebellion. -
The Battle of Bunker Hill was a pivotal early battle of the American Revolutionary War. Though a British tactical victory, it significantly boosted American morale and demonstrated their willingness to fight for independence. -
This adoption signified the thirteen American colonies' declaration of their independence from Great Britain -
It effectively ended major land operations in the war and led to the surrender of a British army
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A British force under Lord Cornwallis decisively defeated the American Continental Army led by General Horatio Gates, near Camden, South Carolina -
The Great Compromise, also known as the Connecticut Compromise, was a pivotal agreement and a Constitutional Convention that resolved the issue of representation in the US Congress. It established a bicameral legislature with a House of Representatives based on proportional representation (population) and a Senate with equal representation for each state -
the 3/5 compromise was an agreement that counted three out of every five enslaved people as part of a state's population for purposes of taxation and representation in the House of Representatives -
A joint House and Senate Conference Committee settled remaining disagreements in September. On October 2, 1789, President Washington sent copies of the 12 amendments adopted by Congress to the states. By December 15, 1791, three-fourths of the states had ratified 10 of these, now known as the “Bill of Rights.
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its a treaty that ended the American Revolutionary War, and also It established the United States as an independent nation and defined its borders.