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brought secular thought to Europe and reshaped the ways people understood issues such a liberty equality, and individual rights -
sought to raise money to pay for this army through a tax on all legal and official papers and publications circulating in the colonies
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Seven british soldiers fired into crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony.
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Orchestrating of the boston tea party which ultimately led to the outbreak
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Marked that start of the American war of independence
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Inside Independence Hall beginning in May 1775
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declaring his own proclamation of rebellion
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After crossing the Delaware river in a treacherous storm, general george Washingtons army defected a garrison of hessian mercenaries at Trenton
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A sovereign, national government
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More than 2000 british and loyalist troops under Lt. General Lord Cornwallis met and defected over 4000 American troop commanded by the ''Hero of Saratoga''
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Ending the war of the American Revolution
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Determine that three out of every five slaves were counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation
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provided a dual system of congressional representation
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Ratification by 9 of the 13 states enacted the new government
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guarantees civil rights and liberates to the individual