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Is known as The Age of Reason. Valued science over mindless belief and reason over superstition. -
Great Britain made significant territorial gains in North America, but disagreements over following frontier policies and how to pay for the war's costs ultimately inflamed colonial unrest and sparked the American Revolution. -
A group of provocateurs and instigators who practiced a severe type of civil disobedience in colonial America to terrorize supporters and enrage the British authority. -
In the American colonies, it collected a tax on all papers and official documents. -
A series of measures passed, taxing imported goods. -
Was a street fight with British soldiers throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks at innocent bystanders. -
American colonists were mad about the taxation, so they dumped the imported tea.
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Twelve of Britain's thirteen American colonies sent representatives to a meeting to assess the country's future in the face of increasing British aggressiveness. -
"Shot heard around the world", between Americans and Britians. -
Men from New England engaged the British army in a bloody battle. -
British soldiers submitted to the Continental Army and their allies from France.
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A treaty that was signed between the American Colonies and Great Britain.
