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Enlightenment was happening around the 18th century marked by a rejection of traditional social, religious and political ideas and an emphasis on rationalism. -
The French and Indian War was a theater of the seven Years' War which pitted the North American colonies.
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Was a loosely organized, clandestine sometimes violent, political organization.
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It required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, or various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards.
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It had taxed goods imported to the American colonies, but American colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw the Acts as an abuse of power.
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A group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were abusing them verbally...
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A political protest that occurred on December 17,1773 .. at Griffin's Wharf in Boston Massachusetts.
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A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
The First Continental congress the intoed states met in Philadelphia to consider its reaction to the British government.
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It was just a month after shots had been fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, and the congress was preparing for war.
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The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War and yet was marked the start of the American War of Independence.
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The Petition was emphasized their loyalty to the British crown and emphasized their rights as British citizens. -
Paine wrote "common sense" advocated independence for the American colonies from Britain.
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God made all men equal and gave them the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
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It was in force from March 1st, 1781, until 1789 when the present-day constitution went into effect.
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Virginia marked the conclusion of the last major battle of the American Revolution and the start of a new nation’s independence.
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Between the American colonies and Great Britain, ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation.
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Great compromise is provide a dual system of congressional representation.
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Every enslaved American would be counted as three-fifths of a person for taxation and representation purposes
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The point of the event was to decide how America was going to be governed. Although the Convention had been officially called to revise the existing Articles of Confederation, many delegates had much bigger plans.
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The constitution became the official framework of the government of the United States of America when New Hampshire became the ninth of 13 states to ratify it.
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President Washington sent copies of the 12th amendments adopted by congress to the states.
