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he ideas of the ancient Greek philosophers, the Renaissance, and the scientific revolution of the late Middle Ages
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To have control over their own land so they can protect their future. They both wanted to have the Upper Ohio River Valley.
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They wanted to raise money for an army. It required colonists to pay taxes on every page of printed paper they used. -
The sons of liberty happened so they could advance the rights of the colonist and so they could fight taxation by the British government. -
The Townshend act was to help pay off expenses. It initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
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7 British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians. They killed 5 people, wounded 6, and angered a whole colony. -
The Boston Tea Party was to protest "No taxation without representation". They took tea and threw it in Boston Harbor. -
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
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This led many Americans to support the revolution. The first military clashes of the American Revolutionary War. -
They fought during the Siege of Boston in the first stage of the American Revolutionary War. They named the battle after someone who was involved in it. -
boosted the morale of the American troops. George Washington's army defeated a garrison of Hessian mercenaries at Trenton
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t was the worst American defeat in the field and left the British in temporary control of the southern colonies. Camden became an important stronghold for the British in South Carolina. -
The treaty of Paris ended the revolution. It also formally recognized the United States as an independent nation. -
A convention of delegates from all the states except Rhode Island met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The delegates shuttered the windows of the State House and swore secrecy so they could speak freely.
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Ratification by 9 of the 13 states enacted the new government. It is to approve or enact a legally binding act that would not otherwise be binding in the absence of such approval.