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Also known as the "Age of Reason" its know as the period of scientific, political and philosophical discourse that characterised European society. This was a time of huge in the way the people thought.
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It was a fight that lasted for 7 years between Britain and France over New World territory. it ended in Britain's favor.
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The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. This conflict inspired anti-British sentiment and they decided to pave the way for the American Revolution.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest. American colonists were frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing "taxation without representation" and dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British east India company. -
The Sons of Liberty were a well-organized Patriot paramilitary political organization it was established to undermine British rule in colonial America and was influential in organizing and carrying out the Boston Tea Party.
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These were a series of 4 laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts bay just for the Boston tea party.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War. The British attacked the patriots.
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The Battle of Yorktown had proved to be a decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The British surrendered in the end and because of that, the British ruled in the colonies and then started the beginning of a new nation, the United States of America.
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This treaty was signed on September 3, 1783, between the American colonies and Great Britain it ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation.
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the compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention. That 3/5 would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.
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The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed. Men like James Madison and Alexander Hamilton wanted to create a new government rather than fix the existing one. The delegates elected George Washington to preside over the Convention.
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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 sign it.
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James Madison and other supporters of the Consitution thought that a part of the bill of rights wasn't necessary. "Government can only exert the powers specified by the Constitution." So the people agreed to add amendments. -
The so-called Great Compromise provided a dual system of congressional representation. In the House of Representatives, each of the states would be assigned a number of seats according to each population.