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The Enlightenment brought great minds to Europe and reshaped the ways people understood issues such as liberty, and individual rights. Today those ideas serve as the basis of the world's strongest democracies.
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The Sons of Liberty got support from colonial resistance through the use of petitions, assemblies, and propaganda, and they often used violence against British officials.
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the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which wanted to raise money to pay for the army through a tax on all
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helping pay the expenses involved in government to the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
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The act authorized the Royal Navy to blockade Boston Harbor
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After about seven weeks of debates, the group agreed to a boycott of British goods within the colonies as a sign of protest
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They showed a Continental army and elected George Washington as Commander in Chief, also the delegates drafted the Olive Branch Petition and sent it to King George III in hopes of reaching a peaceful resolution
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declaring his own Proclamation of Rebellion
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Congress adopted the final text of the Declaration of Independence on July 4
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agreed to state by state voting and proportional state tax burdens based on land values
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ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation
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he fifty-five delegates who met in Philadelphia between May 25 and September 17, 1787
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The compromise provided for a bicameral legislature
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Ratification by 9 of the 13 states enacted the new government
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President Washington sent copies of the 12 amendments adopted by Congress to the states