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Navigation Act
British Parliament passed a trade law called the Navigation Act.The law prevented the colonists to be unable to sell their most valuable goods to other countries except for Britain. -
French and Indian War
A war began on the North American Conitinent between the English and the French. The name comes from the fact that the French enlisted many Native American tribes to fight on their side. The war lasted until 1763, Britain was emerged victorious. -
George III became King of Great Britain
Pushing British victory in seven year wars, led England's success against to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic France and also dealt with the American Revolution. He spent the last of his decade lost in a mental state of insanity. -
Stamp Act
Since Britain was victorious in the war they made a law where the colonist had to pay for the cost of the war. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
The Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that, soon after warfare, declared the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a new nation—the United States of America. -
The United States Constitution
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. -
The Bill of Rights
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. Written by James Madison in response to calls from several states for greater constitutional protection for individual liberties, the Bill of Rights lists specific prohibitions on governmental power.
