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The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement in the seventeenth century that seemed to improve society through fact-based reason and inquiry. The Enlightenment reshaped the ways people understood issued such as individual rights, liberty, and equality.
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The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America. Disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately the American Revolution.
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The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of paper, documents, and playing cards. It required colonists to pay taxes on every page of printed paper they used. -
Sons of Liberty boarded the trade ships docked in Griffin's Wharf and threw the shipments of tea overboard in an event known as the Boston Tea Party. They sometimes resorted to violence against British officials. -
The Townshend Act initiated taxes on lead, paint, tea, paper, and glass. The resentment over the Townshend Acts divided American colonists into loyalists and patriots.
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Dozens of disguised men, some as Indigenous Americans, boarded the three East India company ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. The reason why the Boston Tea Party happened was to protest British Parliament's tax on tea. -
The petition was signed by the Congress president, John Hancock, and was sent to London on 8 July. The petition was to try and find a way to end the crisis between the British government and its American colonies. -
This Battle is the famous 'shot heard 'round the world', marked the start of the American War of Independence. British troops march into a small town of Lexington early in the morning to find themselves faced by a militia company of more 70 men led by Capt. -
American troops displayed their mettle in the Battle of Bunker Hill during the siege of Boston. The American patriots were defeated at the Battle of Bunker Hill. -
Only several American casualties but inflicted substantial casualties to the Hessians, 22 dead, 83 wounded, and approximately 900 taken as prisoners of war. The battle occurred over a span of nine days.
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Battle of Camden was a major victory for the British in the Southern theater of the American revolutionary war. Approximately 800-900 Patriots were captured or killed. -
According to historic records, approximately 230 to 397 soldiers were killed in the Battle of Yorktown. Washingtons forces defeated Lord Charles Cornwallis' veteran army dug in at Yorktown, Virginia.
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The Constitutional Convention was to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation. The convention was intended to revise the league of states and first system of government under the Articles of Confederation.
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The Great Compromise established the United Stated legislature as a bicameral, or two-house law-making body. The Great Compromise settled the method of representation in the legislative branch. -
President Washington sent copies of the 12 amendments adopted by Congress to the states. Originally, the Bill of Rights applied only to the federal government.