-
Period: to
The Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment period of the Modern era of philosophy corresponds roughly to the 18th Century. It includes the following major philosophers: In general terms, the Enlightenment was an intellectual movement, developed mainly in France, Britain and Germany, which advocated freedom, democracy and reason as the primary values of society. -
Period: to
French & Indian War
In 1754, he 1.5 British colonists greatly outnumbered the 70,000 French. The very powerful British treated the American Indians harshly and did little to stop settlers from taking Indian lands. -
Sons of Liberty
Was a secret organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. -
Stamp Act of 1765
The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British Parliament. Parliament passed the Stamp Act on March 22, 1765. -
Period: to
Towshend Act of 1767
Townshend Acts in colonial U.S. history, series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant representative assembly. -
Boston Massacre
British troops shot American protesters after they were rioting and harassing them. to learn more -
Boston Tea Party
British goods sunk by American protesters.. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington and Concord. to learn more -
Declaration of Independence adopted
The United States Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4,
1776.
To learn more -
Period: to
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British army commanded by British peer and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis. -
Treaty of Paris signed
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War. -
Period: to
Great Compromise
When small and large states both agreed to give equal representation to states by population. -
3/5 Compromise
The 3/5 Compromise was a compromise in the United states that meant under this compromise, only three-fifths of the slave population was counted for the purpose of taxation and representation in Congress. -
Period: to
Bill of Rights adopted
On September 25, 1789, Congress transmitted to the state Legislatures twelve proposed amendments to the Constitution. Numbers three through twelve were adopted by the states to become the United States Bill of Rights, effective December 15, 1791.
