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The enlightenment was a philosophical movement that started in Europe. It was a rise of concepts and was skeptical of religion.
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The French and Indian war started in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. After the war Great Britain received enormous amounts of territory in North America.
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The Sons of Liberty was a secret organization stared in the thirteenth American colony. They used violence and threats to scare loyalist and the British government.
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The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. The new tax required all American colonists to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
British passed a law to start taxing and took freedom on American colonies. The British thought it would be fine but it broke into another protest.
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The Boston massacre was a riot with the Americans and British on Kings st.
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The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5th, to October 26th, 1774. All colonies except Georgia sent delegates.
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The Battles of Lexington & Concord is what signaled the American Revolutionary war on April 19, 1775. The British Army went out from Boston to capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington and destroy the Americans store of weapons and ammunition in Concord.
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The second Congress managed the colonial war effort. Also moved towards adopting the Declaration of Independence.
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Jefferson wrote that if a government doesn't protect the rights of citizens then they have the right to form a new government. Jefferson showed that the colonists could separate from the king.
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The Constitutional Convention was a total of 114 days. It was to address the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
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At first the Bill of Rights was not that important until James Madison added them to the constitution.
