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The Enlightenment was a significant intellectual and cultural movement in 18th century Europe that emphasized reason individualism and human rights
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This war was 7 years long it was known as the 7 year war. Great Britain won this war.
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The Stamp Act was a British parliamentary act passed in 1765 that imposed a direct tax on printed materials in the American colonies -
The Sons of Liberty were a group of American colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British rule and taxation without representation. -
The Boston Massacre was a deadly fight between British soldiers and American colonists in Boston. It began with a street brawl and escalated when British soldiers fired into the crowd, killing five colonists. -
the Boston tea party was a seminal American political and mercantile protest in Griffin's Wharf Boston MA. -
Massachusetts colonists defied British authority outnumbered and outfought the Redcoats and embarked on a lengthy war to earn their independence -
The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress. This date is commemorated annually as Independence Day (4th of july) in the United States. -
The Battle of Trenton, a moment in the American Revolutionary War, in Trenton, New Jersey. -
The Battle of Camden also known as the Battle of Camden Court House was a major victory for the British in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War -
The Battle of Yorktown a decisive engagement of the American Revolutionary War, in Yorktown, Virginia. It ended in the surrender of a British army commanded by General Lord Cornwallis
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Treaty of Paris is a series of peace treaties signed in Paris. The most well known is the one signed on September 3, 1783, which ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States. -
A constitutional convention is a formal gathering of representatives to create revise or amend a country's constitution it's a process of establishing or reforming the fundamental laws and principles that govern a nation -
The 3/5 Compromise was an agreement during the 1787 Constitutional Convention where enslaved people were counted as 3/5 of a person for purposes of both representation and taxation. -
The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution because the Constitution lacked limits on government power federalists advocated for a strong national government