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The navigation acts caused good economic growth in Britain but in the American colonies, the acts created difficulties in the life of merchants with little effect on average colonists. -
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War also known as the Seven Years' war. -
The stamp act was a tax on all paper documents inside the colonies that stemmed from the debt Britain had from the Seven Years' War -
A deadly riot on King Street in Boston. Began as a street brawl between American colonists and a British soldier but quickly escalated into a bloody slaughter. -
The tea act gave the colonies control of the delivery of tea without it going through Britain first. It also added a tax on tea. -
Political protest in which angry Americans dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. The protest was because of Britain's imposition of "taxation without representation". -
- The Boston Port Act
- The Massachusetts Government Act
- The Administration of Justice Act
- The Quartering Act
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The First Continental Congress worked to create a common cause for the colonies. 12 of 13 delegates from the 13 colonies met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to Concord to seize an arms cache. The militiamen then intercepted the Redcoats. The battle ended with the British retreating under fire. -
About a month after the shots fired at Lexington and Concord the congress met at Independence Hall. -
By declaring themselves an independent nation, the American colonists could obtain French assistance in the war. -
Ended in an American victory on 10/7/1777. The battle was an attempted three-prong attack on New York by the British. -
The soldiers worked together to build huts for shelter in the camp but poor sanitary conditions and shortages of food and blankets caused disease to plague the camp. -
The battle ended in an American victory. It was the last major land battle of the American Revolution and it led to negotiations for peace with the British and even led to the signing of the Treaty of Paris -
At the Constitutional Convention, Founding Father James Madison drafted what is now the United States Constitution. 39/55 delegates signed it. -
39 out of 55 delegates signed the U.S. Constitution. Many refused because of the lack of a bill of rights.