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European politics, philosophy, science and communications were radically reoriented during the course of the "long 18th century" as part of a movement referred to by its participants as the Age of Reason, or simply the Enlightenment thinkers in Britain, in France and throughout Europe questioned traditional authority and the notion that humanity could be improved through rational change.
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The Sons of Liberty were an underground organization formed out of anger in order to try and wear away the British rule. Their most famous act of rebellion would become known as The British Tea Party, where they destroyed 92,000 pounds of tea. -
The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British Parliament. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonists, came at a time when British Empire was deep in debt from the Seven Years' War ( 1756 - 63 ) and looking to its North American colonies as a revenue source.
Also, British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to help replenish their finances after the costly Seven Years' War with France. Part of the revenue. -
link The Townshend Acts were a series of measurements that taxed the goods that were imported to the American colonies. The taxing angered the colonists and they saw this as the British abusing their power.
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The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770. It first started off as a little fight between a few colonists against one British soldier. As more colonists joined in on the fight, White, the British solider, pleaded for backup. The result of the massacre left five dead colonists. -
The Boston Tea Party was a protest organized by the Sons of Liberty. American colonists were angry at the British for "taxation without representation." The colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first battles to start of the Revolutionary War. Paul Revere and other minutemen sounded the alarm and went alerting the military. Starting in 1764, Great Britain enacted a series of measures aimed at raising revenue from its 13 American colonies. Many of those measures, including the Sugar Act, Stamp Act and Townsend Acts, generated fierce resentment among these colonists.
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The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was the first written constitution of the United States. Written in 1777 and stemming from wartime urgency, its progress was slowed by fears of central authority and extensive lands claims by states.
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The Battle of Yorktown was the last battle of the American Revolutionary war. The British army surrendered and the British government began to think of a peace treaty.
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The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian war. Because of the treaty, France and Britain agreed to give up all of their territories in North America. Great Britain finally gave recognition to its former colonies as a now independent nation, now known as the United States of America. -
The Great Compromise was an agreement made during the Constitutional Convention to create two houses in congress; the Senate and the House of Representatives. Ultimately, the agreement was proposed so that every state had equal representation based off of the states population.
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On June 21, 1788, 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. The journey to ratification, however, was a long and arduous process.
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After the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the Founding Fathers turned to the composition of the states’ and then the federal Constitution. Although a Bill of Rights to protect the citizens was not initially deemed important, the Constitution’s supporters realized it was crucial to achieving ratification.