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The French and Indian War
The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. -
Stamp Act of 1765
On March 22, 1765, British Parliament finally passed the Stamp Act or Duties in American Colonies Act. It required colonists to pay taxes on every page of printed paper they used. The tax also included fees for playing cards, dice, and newspapers. -
Townshend Act of 1767
A series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to extert authority over the colonies through suspension. -
The Boston Massacre
The people in the crowd got shot after angering British and this started the war. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to The British East India Company were thrown from ships into the Boston Harbor by American Patriots disquised as Mohawk Indians. -
Battles of Lexington and 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 Politically disastrous for the British, it persuaded many Americans to take up arms and support the cause of independent. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
New England soldiers faced the British army for the first time in a pitched battle. The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on a hilly landscape of fenced pastures that were situated across the Charles River from Boston. -
Declaration of Independence
The document announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. It was the last of a series of steps that led the colonies to final separation from Great Britain. At the time that the American Revolution began in April 1775 most colonists were not seeking independence. -
Battle of Yorktown
Outnumbered and outfought during a three-week siege in which they sustained great losses, British troops surrendered to the Continental Army and their French allies. -
Treaty of Paris (Signed)
This treaty, signed on September 3, 1783, between the American colonies and Great Britain, ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation. -
Constitutional Convention
The point of the event was to decide how America was going to be governed. Although the convention had been officially called to revise the exsisting Articles of Conferderation. -
Bill of Rights (Adopted)
Bill of Rights, in the United States, the first 10 amendments to the U.S Constitution, which were adopted as a single unit on December 15, 1791. And which constitute a collection of mutually reinforcing guarantees of individual rights and of limitations on federal and state governments.
