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the French burned Fort Duquesne to the ground before retreating.
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declared that only English ships would be allowed to bring goods into England, and that the North American colonies could only export
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provided that colonial authorities would arrange for British troops to be housed in local barracks and public houses -
Colonial resistance to the Stamp Act and pressure from London merchants prompt Parliament to abolish the Stamp Act.
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a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate against both a tax on tea -
seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony. -
to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
which replaced the elective local government with an appointive one and increased the powers of the military governor -
dozens of disguised men, some as Indigenous Americans, boarded the three East India Company ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. -
John Hancock was elected president of Congress. George Washington is named commander-in-chief. -
British forces succeed in destroying cannon and supplies in Concord.
Militia successfully drive British back to Boston. -
God made all men equal and gave them the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
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the Constitution of 1787 and the stronger federal government it created, the Articles enabled the infant United States to wage war against the British successfully, -
a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation. -
uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions.