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French-Indian War(1756-1763)
War between France England for control over North America. It was called the French and Indian War. -
Navigation Acts (1763)
The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade. -
Stamp Act
The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses. -
Townshend Acts
Which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. In response to new taxes, the colonies again decided to discourage the purchase of British imports. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre marked the moment when political tensions between British soldiers and American colonists turned deadly. -
Boston Tea Party
On the night of 16 December 1773, 340 chests of tea were destroyed in Boston Harbour, an event that has gone down in history as the Boston Tea Party. -
Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord on 19 April 1775, the famous 'shot heard 'round the world', marked the start of the American War of Independence. -
Second Continental Congress
The First Congress started a boycott of British goods and a Second Continental Congress. The Second Continental Congress created the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5, 1775, to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
Common Sense
The sway the Thirteen Colonies toward independence with his persuasive and passionate case for separation from Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
The Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence, announcing the colonies' separation from Great Britain. -
Articles of Confederation
The written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
Shays's Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry. -
Constitutional Convention (aka Philadelphia Convention)
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.