consearra's timeline
Category: Outro
Atualizado: 23 out 2017
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Created byWavvy Cece
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Montesquieu published " The Spirit of the Laws."13 colonies stretch along the east coast of North America.Frederick the Great, exerted tight control over his subjects during his reign as king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786.Rousseau set forth his ideas about government and society in The Social Contract.Catherine the Great, who became empress in 1762, toyed with implementing Enlightenment ideas.French and Indian War endsParliament passed the Sugar ActStamp ActParliament repealed the Stamp ActGeorge lll came to powerBritish soldiers fire on a group of angry colonists, killing 5.Men disguised as Native Americans boarded 3 ships and dumped the British Tea overboard.Parliament repealed the Stamp ActNew laws passed to punish the colonists for the troubles they had caused.The ongoing tension between the colonists and the British exploded into war in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts.Colonists adopt the Declaration of Independence.The French fleet blockaded the Chesapeake Bay, which enabled Washington to force the surrender of a British army at Yorktown, Virginia.Frederick the Great's reign as king of Prussia ended.Our founding fathers met in secret to redraft the articles of the new constitution.The Constitution became the Supreme law of the land.
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