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European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were synthesized into a worldview that gained wide assent in the West and that instigated revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics.click here for more
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The French and Indian War was a fight for supremacy of the Ohio Valley region, between the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers click here for more
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The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea -
seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony -
It showed that the Sons of Liberty identified with America, over their official status as subjects of Great Britain. -
The Second Continental Congress took place inside Independence Hall, just a month after shots been fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. Delegates from the Thirteen Colonies met up united in support of the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War. -
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5, 1775, to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. The Petition emphasized their loyalty to the British crown and emphasized their rights as British citizens -
contained the terms, agreed by the 13 new states, by which they agreed to participate in a centralized form of government, in addition to their self- rule -
British troops surrendered to the Continental Army and their French allies Click here for more
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signed on September 3, 1783, between the American colonies and Great Britain, ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation -
The Connecticut Compromise was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of Compromise, each state would get two representatives in the Senate and a variable number of representatives in the House in proportion to its population -
They bypassed the state legislatures, reasoning that their members would be reluctant to give up power to a national government. Instead, they called for special ratifying conventions in each state. Ratification by 9 of the 13 states enacted the new government. -
It spells out Americans' rights in relation to their government. It guarantees civil rights and liberties to the individual—like freedom of speech, press, and religion. click here for more -
It determined that three out of every five slaves were counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation.