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The enlightenment was an intellectual advancement that started in Europe in the 17 and 18th cenerties. -
The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.
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The sons of liberty were a group of instigators and provocateurs in colonial America who used a form of disobedience, threats which caused violence to intimidate loyalists to outrage the British government. -
British soldeirs shot and killed people in Boston that formed a mob and threw projectiles at the soldeirs.
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Colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded three British tea ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. -
Tensions have been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities resulting to a eight year war. -
The 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain, they wanted to seek their own independence. -
It was a decisive victory by a combined force of the American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington forcig the British to surrender -
It was a treaty signed after the announcement of the United State's independece so that Great Britain is allied with the nations of France, Spain and the Netherlands -
There was two national legislatures in a bicameral Congress. The members of the House of Representatives would be allocated according to each state's population and elected by the people. -
New Hampshire became the ninth of 13 states and the Constitution became the framework of the U.S.
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On September 25, Congress agreed upon the 12 amendments, and they were sent to the states for approval. Articles three through twelve were ratified and became the Bill of Rights later on.
