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The Enlightenment, a philosophical movement that dominated in Europe during the 18th century, was centered around the idea that reason is the primary source of authority and legitimacy, and advocated such ideals as liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state.
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The war was the North American conflict. A larger imperial war between the Great Britain and France for seven years it ended with the Treaty of Paris. -
the British Parliament passed the "Stamp Act" to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War. The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards.
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The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that happen on King Street in Boston. In the begging it was a brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier but later escalated to something bigger. -
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
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The Intolerable Acts (passed/Royal assent March 31–June 22, 1774) were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government.
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They where punitive laws passes by British Parliament after the Boston tea party. the laws where created to punish the Massachusetts colonist's for the tea party protest. -
The congress adopted the Articles of the Confederation. the first constitution of U.S. -
The siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown, or the German battle (from the presence of Germans in all three armies), ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of the American Continental Army troops led by General George
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The Treaty was signed by the U.S. and British Representatives. When the signed the treaty the War of American Revolution ended.
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The compromise was an agreement over the counting of slaves and in determining a state's total population.
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The Constitutional Convention took place from May 14 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed. Although the Convention had been officially called to revise the existing Articles of Confederation, many delegates had much bigger plans.
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The Great Compromise was forged in a heated dispute during the 1787 Constitutional Convention: States with larger populations wanted congressional representation based on population, while smaller states demanded equal representation. To keep the convention from dissolving into chaos, the founding fathers came up with the Great Compromise.
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It's the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution confirming the fundamental rights of America. George Mason wrote theses amendments to ensure individual.
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