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Enlightenment
A European intellectual movement in the late 17th and 18th centuries focusing on reasons and individualists rather than tradition. It was influenced by 17th-century philosophers like Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and the most influential people of that time include Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith. -
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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War put the colonies of British America against New France. Each side was supported by military units from their parent countries and their American Indian allies. -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was an organization that was considered a secret. It was created within the 13th American Colonies to try to get more and better rights for the European Colonist.
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Boston Massacre
A confrontation on March 5th 1770 in which the British harassed and killed 5 people. People described it as a deadly riot that happened on a street called King Street. click here -
Boston Tea Party
A political protest by the patriots over the British over taxing them.The patriots took the tax collectors and tortured them.
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Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were disciplinary laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 a little after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to be a punishment to the colonists of Massachusetts for their defiance in the Tea Party protest. -
Second Continental Congress Meet
The Second Continental Congress was a series of meetings delegates attended from the 13 colonies in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. Soon after these meetings the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Declaration of Independence Adopted
The Declaration of Independence is statement hat was adopted by the Second Continental Congress. he meeting took place at the Pennsylvania State House and is also known as The Independence Hall. -
Battle of Yorktown
George Washington and 17,000 French and other troops began a battle against British General Lord, Charles Cornwallis and 9,000 members of his troups in Yorktown, Virginia . -
Treaty of Paris signed
The Treaty of Paris is treaty that was signed in 1763 signed by The United States, Britain, France, & Spain that ended the American Revolutionary War. It was drafted November 30th, 1782 but, was not effective until May 12th, 1784. -
Great Compromise
The Great compromise also known as the Connecticut Compromise was an agreement between large and small states that stated every state would have equal representation with their senates but would have representation based on population through the house of representatives. -
3/5 Compromise
The most controversial of all the compromises was the Three-Fifths Compromise. It was an agreement to count three-fifths of a state's slaves in apportioning Representatives, Presidential electors, and direct taxes. -
Constitutional Convention
A constitutional convention is a meeting for the purpose of revising an existing constitution or writing a completely new one. Members of a constitutional convention or a delegate to a constitutional convention are usually elected by popular vote. -
Constitution is Ratified
To get the first nine states to approve the constitution it took 10 months. The first state to approve it was Delaware, on December 7, 1787. The last state to approve was Rhode Island, on May 29, 1790.
