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The French and Indian War
A conflict between the British and the colonist against the French and the Natives. The British win the war but end up broke thus they try to gain there wealth back at the cost of the colonist later on. -
Stamp Act
An act of the British Parliament in 1765 that demanded revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the Crown. -
Townshend Act
To help with the cost of governing the American colonies, the British parliament passed the Townshend act. The Townshend act consisted of taxing goods that where imported into America. With no political representation the American colonies saw this as a abuse of power, increasing tensions between the colonies and Britain. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on King Street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter. The conflict energized anti-British sentiment and paved the way for the American Revolution. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an American political protest on December 16, 1773 by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. The demonstrators boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The British government considered the protest an act of treason and responded harshly. The sons of liberty reason for doing this was the lack of taxes towards the tea sell. -
Intolerable Acts
The intolerable acts was a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. The four acts were the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act. -
First Continental Congress Meets
The First Continental Congress convened in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between September 5 and October 26, 1774. Delegates from twelve of Britain's thirteen American colonies met to discuss America's future under growing British aggression. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. A confrontation on the Lexington town green started off the fighting, and soon the British were hastily retreating under intense fire. -
Second Continental Congress Meeting
The Second Continental Congress, meeting in May 1775, appointed George Washington commander in chief of the army. It also authorized the raising of the army through conscription. -
Olive Branch Petition
On July 5, 1775, as a last effort to prevent a formal declaration of war, Congress adopted the Olive Branch Petition, which was sent to the king. The petition emphasized their loyalty to the British crown and their rights as British citizens.as a letter sent to -
Articles of confederation
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. It stablished a central government that prevented the individual states from conducting their own foreign diplomacy. The articles of confederation where adopted on November 15, 1777 but it was in force between March 1, 1781 and 1789, when the present day constitution went into effect. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown took place in 1781 between September 19 and October 28. This was the last major battle fought, leading to negotiations of surrender. The British had a army of around 9,000 soldiers while the Americans greatly out numbered them with a army of around 29,900 soldiers. -
Treaty of Paris
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. The treaty was consider after the British lost a major battle in Yorktown, to later be singed two years later. -
Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May 25th and September 19th of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation. . -
3/5 Compromise
The Three-Fifths Compromise was reached among state delegates during the 1787 Constitutional Convention. It determined that three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation.