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the French and Indian war began in 1757 and ended with the treaty of Paris in 1763 -
eneded the french and indian war seven years war between great britan and france as well as their respective allies -
the act required the colonists to pay a tax represented by a stamp on various forms of paper documents and playing's cards which took place in Brittan -
the sons of liberity were a grassroots group of instigators and provocateurs in colonial American who used an extreme form of civil disobedience -
the town sheild revenue act of 1767 placed duties on various consumers items like paper paint lead tea and glass -
british sentries gaurding the boston customs house shot into a crowd of civilians killing three men and injuring eight two of them mortally -
was an act of protest in which a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chest of tea into Boston harbor to agitate against both a tax on tea -
battle of bunker was a battle between American patriot's and superior British army because the British were trying to keep control of the city and control its valuable seaport but the American patriot's did end up loosing this battle -
general George Washington's army defeated a garrison of hessian mercenaries at Trenton after crossing the Delaware river in a treacherous storm -
Washington forces defeated lord Charles Cornwallis veteran army dug in at Yorktown Virginia -
three out of every fives slaves was counted when determining a states total population for legislative representations and taxation -
established the united states legislature as a bicmeral or two house law making body -
it was decided that the best solution to the young country promblems was to set aside the articles of confederation and write a new constitution -
bill of the rights in the united states the first 10 amendments to the us constitution which were adopted as a single unit on december 15 1791
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the enlightenment the great age of reason is deefined as the period of rigorous scientific political and philosophical discourse that characterised europen society during the long 18th century