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European politics, philosophy, science and communications were radically reoriented as part of a movement referred to by its participants as the Age of Reason, or simply the Enlightenment. -
North American problem in a larger war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Year War.
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They made publications cutting off the dead of the British troops as murderers and calling for their removal. They also where involved in the Boston Tea Party
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required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents -
To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts -
A of disguised men boarded the three East India Company ships. They dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. They were all trying to hide there true identities. -
The Second Continental Congress met inside Independence Hall it was a month after shots had been fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. -
in one hour the Continental Army got 900 Hessian officers and soldiers and large supply of muskets, bayonets, swords, and cannons. -
The Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Continental Congress. This document served as the United States first constitution. -
Revolutionary War Battle of Camden, South Carolina, pitted American forces. The Battle of Camden was the worst Patriot defeat of the American Revolution. -
British troops surrendered to the Continental Army and their French allies. This last major land battle of the American Revolution.
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This ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation. -
They had this to talk about the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.
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for every five slaves in a state, three would be included in the population census determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives. -
The basic rights it guarantees to religion, speech, press, privacy and more. It won over states