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a European movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It caused the Thirty Years' War, centuries of mistreatment at the hands of monarchies and the church, greater exploration of the world, and European thinkers' interest in the world. -
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French and Indian war
The French and Indian War began over the specific issue of whether the upper Ohio River valley was a part of the British Empire. The French won and It ended with the treaty of Paris in 1763. -
The Stamp Act of 1765
The Stamp Act was an act passed by the British Parliamentary
in 1765 that required the colonies to pay a tax, represented by a stamp on various forms of papers. This led to the representatives from nine colonies to meet and discuss the situation, and came to the conclusion that while regulated trade was ok, they didn't have the power to tax as they weren't represented in the parliamentary.
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The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. There were many conflicts in Boston before the massacre that most likely led to it. Several days after the latest conflict, colonists started a fight with an officer, making him call for reinforcements, the fight escalated, and after someone supposedly said "fire", a soldier fired his gun, followed by others.
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Sons of Liberty
The sons of liberty were a group of instigators in colonial America. They used extreme threats and actual violence to intimidate loyalists and outrage the British government. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred because of the unjust taxation of various items, to the colonies by the British, that resulted in 342 crates of tea being dumped in the water from the port, which led to the British Parliamentary passing the four acts known as the Intolerable Acts.
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The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts, also called the Coercive Acts, were a series of punitive laws enacted by the British Parliamentary following the Boston Tea Party. These acts were a direct response towards colonial resistance and its purpose was to reinforce Britain's control over the colonies, however, instead of reinforcing its control, it led to the colonies uniting and discussing an approach towards Britain in the First Continental Congress meeting. -
First Continental Congress meets
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Battles of Lexington & Concord
The British marched into Lexington and Concord intending to suppress the possibility of rebellion by seizing weapons from the colonists. Instead, their actions sparked the first battle of the Revolutionary War. Americans won and the British forces succeed in destroying cannon and supplies in Concord. This was also the start of the Revolutionary War. -
U.S. Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a document that stated the independence of the colonies from British rule on July 4 of 1774. It was presented and signed by America's Founding Fathers in the Second Continental meeting. -
The Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown was a decisive victory by a combined force of the American Continental Army and the French Army troops against the British Troops. The battle begun the 9th of September of 1781, and ended on October 18 of the same year. The outcome marked the conclusion of the last major battle of the American Revolution and the start of a new nation's independence. -
The Treaty of Paris (1783)
The Treaty of Paris is a document that was signed on September 3 of 1783 by representatives of King George III of Great Britain, and representatives from the United States. This treaty officially ended the war and recognized the U.S. independence and granted the U.S. significant western territory. -
The U.S. Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional convention was a meeting held in Philadelphia on May 25th of 1787. The purpose of this meeting was to designate the new government system to use for the newly united US. The delegates created a new system that replaced the existing one, and elected George Washington as the first president of the United States. -
Great Compromise
The great compromise was an agreement made between large and small U.S. states that partly defined the representation each state would have in the legislature under the United States Constitution.
