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sugar act
Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. -
stamp act
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British soldiers. -
Tea Act
would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of about 200 men, some disguised as Indians, assembled on a near-by hill. Whopping war chants, the crowd marched two-by-two to the wharf, descended upon the three ships and dumped their offending cargos of tea into the harbor waters. -
First Continental Congress
The idea of such a meeting was advanced a year earlier by Benjamin Franklin, but failed to gain much support until after the Port of Boston was closed in response to the Boston Tea Party. -
Lexington and Concord
The first shots starting the revolution were fired at Lexington, Massachusetts. -
George Wasington
when he came commander in chief for the colonist. -
Declaration of Independance
the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Yorktown
British surrender to combined American and French forces under the command of George Washington. -
treaty of paris
This treaty, 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. -
bill of rights
The conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added.
