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A intellectual movement in the 1600s and the 1700s that focused on reason.
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A war caused because American Indians fighting to maintain control of their land and cultural future that the French had claimed in the Upper Ohio River Valley, they wanted to trade American Indians and control the area.
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Groups of American colonists who had disagreed with the British rule of the 13 North American colonies, they were a grassroot group of instigators and acted in the American colonial.
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It was to raise money to pay for army through a tax on all legal and official papers and for circulating in the colonies. It was a tax paper on all official documents in the American colonies but not in England.
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Series of measures passed by the British Parliament which taxed goods imported to the American colonies. The Townshend Acts anger the colonists because the colonists had opposed direct tax and Townshend believed they would accept the indirect taxes.
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A street fight between a patriot mob, throwing multiple things with a squad of British soldiers. Lots of colonists were killed and its called the Boston Massacre to show everyone the dangers of troops among colonists.
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A political protest caused because American colonists were angry at Britain for have an impressive appearance to taxation and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
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It was a series of the four laws passed by the British Parliament so they could punish the colony of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.
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When New England soldiers were faced to fight the British army for the first time in a pitched battle. The British had defeated the Americans.
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It was a call for the right to statehood than individual liberties, when the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain.
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France giving up all its territories in mainland North America. The United States and Great Britain signed the Treaty of Paris that formally ending the Revolutionary War.
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A formal meeting held for the purpose to creating a constitution for the United States. It was a central issue of the convention for the federal government or the states would have more power.