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The French and Indian War was part of a worldwide nine years' war that took place between 1754 and 1763. It was fought between France and Great Britain to determine control of the vast colonial territory of North America. -
A series of laws passed by the English Parliament to regulate shipping and maritime commerce. The Acts increased colonial revenue by taxing the goods going to and from British colonies. -
The Stamp Act was a law passed by the British government in 1765. It meant that all legal documents and printed papers used in the American colonies had to have an official stamp. -
Acts of British Parliament requiring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages. -
Imposed duties on British china, glass, lead, paint, paper and tea imported to the colonies -
The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. -
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773. 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. -
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party -
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5th, 1775 to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
"The shot heard round the world" is a phrase that refers to the opening shot of the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, which began the American Revolutionary War and led to the creation of the United States of America -
The Second Continental Congress convened after the American Revolutionary War (1775-83) had already begun. In 1776, it took the momentous step of declaring America's independence from Britain -
The Declaration of Independence was the first formal statement by a nation's people asserting their right to choose their own government. -
'Common Sense,' published in 1776, inspired American colonists to declare independence from England. -
The Articles of Confederation served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. -
Shays' Rebellion was an organized rebellion of western Massachusetts farmers and countrymen against the state of Massachusetts in 1786-1787.
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The Constitutional Convention took place from May 14 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed.