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French-Indian War (1756-1763)
It was also called the 7 years war. The French surrenders supplies over to North American. -
Stamp Act
A tax that was printed on paper. It required for you to get a stamp to create and publish things on paper. -
Townshend Acts
British troops land in Boston to enforce the Townshend duties and clamp down on local radicals. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers killed three people of a crowd of three or four hundred who were abusing them verbally and throwing various missiles. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. -
Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)
The British Parliament passes the Coercive Acts, often called the Intolerable Acts in America. Among other actions, Britain closes the port of Boston and requires British troops to be housed in taverns and vacant buildings. The acts generate considerable sympathy for Massachusetts among other colonies. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, and signed on July 8 in a final attempt to avoid war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in America. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord (aka “The Shot Heard Around the World”)
The first shots of the Revolutionary War are fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. The news of the bloodshed rockets along the eastern seaboard, and thousands of volunteers converge—called "Minute Men"—on Cambridge, Mass. These are the beginnings of the Continental Army. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress met inside Independence Hall beginning in May 1775. It was just a month after shots had been fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, and the Congress was preparing for war. They established a Continental army and elected George Washington as Commander-in-Chief, but the delegates also drafted the Olive Branch Petition and sent it to King George III in hopes of reaching a peaceful resolution. -
Common Sense
Common Sense was an instant best-seller. Published in January 1776 in Philadelphia, nearly 120,000 copies were in circulation by April. Paine's brilliant arguments were straightforward. He argued for two main points, independence from England ,and the creation of a democratic republic. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the document that gives us our. rights In the document our rights are described as unalienable. -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was the first written constitution of the United States. Written in 1777 and stemming from wartime urgency, its progress was slowed by fears of central authority and extensive land claims by states. It was not ratified until March 1, 1781. -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
An uprising against high taxes during a rough economic period. -
Constitutional Convention (aka Philadelphia Convention)
Delegates arrive intending to draft a new constitution.