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The Enlightenment was ap period of time in 18th century Europe in which ideas of philosophy and science were popularized by some French philosophers
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The French and Indian war was a war between France and Britain for land int the Ohio valley
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the sons of liberty were a political group that rallied support for the revolution they were most well known as the masterminds behind the Boston tea party
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a group of patriots were throwing snowballs, sticks, and stones at a group of British soldiers, the soldiers then fired into the crowd killing 5 injuring 6 -
A group of about 60 American colonists dressed as Native Americans held a protest against the tax on tea and the East India Company where they threw 342 chests of tea into the harbor -
The battle of bunker hill was between American patriots and the British Army. America lost but it was proof that the colonists could hold their ground against the British -
Thomas Paine published Common Sense which is a 45 page pamphlet that defends the idea of American independence -
The Declaration of Independence was written to rally troops, gain foreign allies and to announce the creation of a new country but the main purpose was to explain the colonists right to revolution. -
The Intolerable acts were a series of 4 laws that were passed to punish the colony of Massachusetts's bay including cutting off port access indefinitely
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The first official constitution of the United States made with the purpose of establishing the functions of the national government -
French and American troops forced the British to surrender solidifying the birth of a new nation -
The Treaty of Paris was signed by British and American representatives to recognize the United States as an independent country -
This was an agreement between delegates from the north and the south that said only 3/5ths of the enslaved population would count towards the American population -
This was a meeting of government officials to address and reform the weak central government
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Established the two party system, and ensured every state would have proper representation