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Stamp Act of 1765
The Stamp Act helped fund for the British troops in colonies during the 7 years. The colonist had to pay taxes stamped on various papers. -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was a secret revolutionary organization that was founded by Samuel Adams in the Thirteen American Colonies to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. It played a major role in most colonies in battling the Stamp Act in 1765. -
Townshend Act of 1767
The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. Early attempts, such as the Stamp Act of 1765—which taxed colonists for every piece of paper they used—were met with widespread protests in America -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a situation of British soldiers who were being harassed by a mob of people. The soldier then shot their guns and killed and wounded many people.https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-massacre -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists in Boston protested against the tea tax against the British government. The colonist raided three ships and dumped containers of tea out. -
French & Indian War
The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by American Indian allies. -
Battles of Lexington & Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge. -
Second Continental Congress meets
A convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, soon after the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Olive Branch Petition sent to England
The Olive Branch Petition was a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution. It was a document in which the colonists pledged their loyalty to the crown and asserted their rights as British citizens. The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5, 1775 -
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense published
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
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Battle of Yorktown
George Washington led French and Continental troops against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis. Charles's army surrendered to Washington's army therefore Washington won. -
Treaty of Paris signed
Signed by the U.S. and British Representatives, resulting in at the end of the war of the American revolution. The agreement recognized U.S. independence and granted the U.S. significant western territory. -
Bill of Rights Adopted
Congress transmitted to the state Legislatures twelve proposed amendments to the Constitution. Only numbers 3 through 12 were adopted to the United States. https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights/how-did-it-happen -
Constitution is ratified
the first Congress of the United States adopted 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution—the Bill of Rights—and sent them to the states for ratification. Ten of these amendments were ratified in 1791.
