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American Revolution
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End of French and Indian War
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. -
Navigation Acts
Acts imposed by the British government that imposed ridiculous restrictions on the colonists trades and made more money for Britain. -
Stamp Act
Tax imposed on colonists newspapers and pamphlets that enraged them, and was seen as an attack on their rights. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers opened fire on a crowd that was hitting them with stones, killing five colonists and being known as the Boston massacre -
Tea Act
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. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists protested tea tax by throwing British tea that had recently arrived into the harbor. -
Intolerable/Coercive Acts
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. -
First Continental Congress
Representatives from the thirteen colonies gather in Philadelphia to discuss the response to Britain’s harsh acts. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
Colonists clashes with British troops and the creating the opening shots of the American Revolution. -
Second Continental Congress
Meeting where congress took monumental step of declaring independence from Britain. -
Declaration of Independence adopted
Document that declared colonists rights and their independence from England was adopted. -
Battle of Saratoga
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. -
Winter at Valley Forge
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. -
Battle of Yorktown
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 -
Writing of the United States Constitution
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. -
US Constitution adopted
39 delegates signed the now finished constitution, and it became that backbone of a government still used today.