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The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement that put a foreground on reason over superstition, science over blind faith, individualism and skepticism towards authority. -
The Stamp Act of 1765 was an act that focused on raising revenue for the British government to assist in the cost of British troops. This act was levied upon the American colonists by the British Parliament. This act imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies.
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The Stamp Act was eventually repealed the British Parliament
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The Sons of Liberty was a group (a part of the American colonies) that aimed to protect colonial rights and liberties. This group fought against the British taxation (Taxation Without Representation) and policies. The actions of the Sons of Liberty resulted in the colonist's declaration of independence.
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This group demobilized in approximately 1783.
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The Townshend Acts of 1767 were a series of British acts ( Revenue Act, Suspension of the New York Assembly Act, Commissioners of Customs Act, Vice-Admiralty ) that imposed taxes upon various good that were imported into the American colonies.
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Each of the Townshend Acts went into effect on November 20, 1767 and was repealed by the British Parliament on March 5, 1770
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The Boston Massacre was a fatal interaction among the British soldiers and the American colonists. The British enforced tax laws, which were despised by the colonists, and tried to maintain order in Boston. This want for control led to a violent outcome, with five deaths of civilians and the arrest of eight British soldiers. -
The Intolerable Acts was a sequence of four acts (the Boston port Act - March 31, 1774, the Massachusetts Government Act - May 1774, the Administration of Justice Act - May 20, 1774, and the Quartering Act - June 2, 1774). These acts were put in place to penalize Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.
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The Battle of Bunker hill was a fight between the British Army and the colonial forces of New England. The colonial forces set out to embattle the Charlestown peninsula to terminate British access to Boston. In the end, the British defeated the colonial forces. However, it was not a lost for the colonial forces, but a display of perseverance. -
Thomas Pain's Common Sense was a pamphlet that pushed for American independence from the British rule. He argued that the colonies weren't getting representation while under the rule of the British and that they needed independence.
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The Battle of Trenton was a battle between the Continental Army and the Hessian forces. This battle resulted in a victory for the Continental Army, which was a vital American Revolutionary War win. -
The Battle of Camden was a fight between the British forces and the American forces. The British, wanting to regain control over the Southern colonies, established a base at Camden and the American forces attempted to displace the British. This battle resulted in an American loss. -
The Battle of Yorktown was a battle between the American Continental Army and the British Army. The end result left the American Continental Army with a victory and the British surrendering, which led to last battle of the American Revolution.
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This battle lasted for 22 days.
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The Treaty of Paris was an agreement to officially end the American Revolutionary War and give the United States their independence.
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The Treaty of Paris was corroborated by the United States Congress on January 14, 1784.
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The Constitutional Convention was a meeting involving the delegates from twelve of the thirteen original US states. In this meeting, they agreed to rid of the Articles of Confederation and write a completely new constitution.
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The Constitutional Convention ceased with the signing of the US
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The Three-Fifths Compromise was an agreement made during the 1787 Constitutional Convention. This was an agreement to consider enslaved individuals as three-fifths of a person for the purposed of increase of representation in the House of Representatives.
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The Three-Fifths Compromise ended with the enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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This act settled a concern in the US that pertained to equal representation of all states. This act put in place a two-house legislature with a house of representatives for each state that was population-based. Each state would also have two senators to guarantee equal representation for all states.