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The Enlightenment produced numerous books, essays, inventions, scientific discoveries, laws, wars and revolutions. -
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
The Sons of Liberty were groups of American colonists who disagreed with British rule of the 13 North American colonies. -
On March 22 1765, the British Parliament finally passed the Stamp Act or Duties in American Colonies Act. It required colonists to pay taxes on every page of printed paper they used -
On March 5, 1770, seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and It made the colony mad -
People poured out lot of tea into the ocean. 340 chest of tea were poured -
The four acts were the Boston Port Bill, which closed Boston Harbor the Massachusetts Government Act, -
Casualties numbered more than 1,000 British and about 450 American soldiers. -
The First Continental Congress convened in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
Outnumbered and outfought during a three-week siege in which they sustained great losses -
The Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783 -
The Three-Fifths Compromise was reached among state delegates during the 1787 Constitutional Convention. -
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met -
The Great Compromise established the United States legislature as a bicameral -
On October 2, 1789, President Washington sent copies of the 12 amendments adopted by Congress to the states