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Navigaton Act
required all European goods bound for America, or other colonies, to be shipped through England first. -
French and Indian War
The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France. -
Stamp Act
an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
George lll
George the 3rd became king of britain and ireland. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. -
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
Other influences include rights and freedoms like the freedom of speech. When Jefferson was writing the declaration of independence he got his ideas of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness from the enlightenment thinker John Locke. who wrote about life, liberty, and property. -
The United States Constitution
Ideas in the constitution came from several different Enlightenment thinkers. John Locke's ideas are once again found in an American document. His ideas of the people getting to choose their leaders or the power lies with the people is ever present in the US. -
The Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights and the Amendments to The Constitution. The Ten Original Amendments: The Bill of Rights. Passed by Congres September 25, 1789. Ratified December 15, 1791.
