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England wins French and Indian war and gain control of the colonies. It realizes it’s treasury is drained, and forces the colonists to pay taxes to fix its debts. -
Acts imposed by the British government that imposed ridiculous restrictions on the colonists trades and made more money for Britain. -
Tax imposed on colonists newspapers and pamphlets that enraged them, and was seen as an attack on their rights. -
British soldiers opened fire on a crowd that was hitting them with stones, killing five colonists and being known as the Boston massacre -
Granted East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea in the colonies, causing it to undercut colonial merchants and eventually causing the Boston Tea Party. -
Colonists protested tea tax by throwing British tea that had recently arrived into the harbor. -
These acts did things like closing the Boston Harbor and taking away Massachusetts leaders power and giving it to royal governors as punishment for the Boston Tea Party. -
Representatives from the thirteen colonies gather in Philadelphia to discuss the response to Britain’s harsh acts. -
Colonists clashes with British troops and the creating the opening shots of the American Revolution. -
Meeting where congress took monumental step of declaring independence from Britain. -
Document that declared colonists rights and their independence from England was adopted. -
Victory over Britain that persuaded France to join America, bringing much needed supplies and troops, as well as the extra support of Spain and The Netherlands. -
In the brutal winter at Valley Forge troops suffered from hunger, cold temperatures and disease, yet Washington was patient and held the ragged army together. -
Washington forces British surrender in Yorktown, Virginia with the help of French forces. This crumbles the war effort and leads to the signing of the Treaty of Paris -
Figures like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison created a flexible government plan that was for the people, one that is still used to this day. -
39 delegates signed the now finished constitution, and it became that backbone of a government still used today.