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French Indian War
Was a battleground during the Seven Years War. Pitted the British and French colonies in North America against one another, with different Native American tribes supporting each side. -
Sons Of Liberty
Organization engaged in politics in the Thirteen American Colonies. It was crucial in most colonies' efforts to oppose the Stamp Act in 1765 and the entire American Revolutionary War. -
Stamp Act of 1765
The Duties in American Colonies Act of 1765 (5 Geo. 3. c. 12), popularly known as the Stamp Act of 1765, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain that placed a direct tax on the British colonies in America. The levy was intended to pay for British military personnel stationed in the American colonies following the French and Indian War, but the colonists argued that they had already paid their fair share of the war costs because they had never feared a French invasion. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, also known as the Incident on King Street in Great Britain, occurred on March 5, 1770, in Boston. Nine British soldiers shot and killed a number of people among a throng of three hundred or more who were verbally abusing them and hurling various missiles. -
Boston Tea Party
The Sons of Liberty staged the Boston Tea Party, an American political and commercial protest, on December 16, 1773 in Boston, colonial Massachusetts. The Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which exempted the British East India Company from all duties outside those imposed by the Townshend Acts and permitted it to sell tea from China in the American colonies, was the objective. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
On April 19, 1775, the conflicts took place in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay. They signaled the start of hostilities between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Patriot militias from the thirteen colonies of the United States. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
On June 17, 1775, the Battle of Bunker Hill took place during the Siege of Boston, the first phase of the American Revolutionary War. Although the brunt of the fighting took occurred on the nearby hill that became known as Breed's Hill, it was the initial goal of both the colonial and British troops. -
Declaration of Independence adopted
A polity inside a specific territory that declares its independence and status as a state by issuing a proclamation of independence, a declaration of statehood, or a declaration of statehood. The International Court of Justice of the UN determined in 2010 that "International law contains no prohibition on declarations of independence" in an advisory judgment in Kosovo. -
Articles of confederation Created
Between July 1776 and November 1777, the Second Continental Congress debated it at Independence Hall in Philadelphia before adopting a resolution on November 15, 1777. The Congress followed the Articles when doing business, managing the war effort, engaging in diplomatic connections with other countries, resolving territory disputes, and managing relations with Native Americans while waiting for all states to ratify. -
Battle of Camden
often referred to as the Battle of Camden Court House, was a crucial British victory in the American Revolutionary War's Southern theater. Gates, the American commander most remembered for leading the Patriot forces in the British defeat at Saratoga three years prior, suffered a humiliating defeat as a result of the debacle. -
Battle of Yorktown
It was more than just a military victory when British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and his army submitted to General George Washington's American Army and its French allies at the Battle of Yorktown on October 19, 1781. The outcome in Yorktown, Virginia, signaled the end of the American Revolution's final significant fight and the beginning of the independence of a new country. -
Treaty of Paris
The American Revolutionary War and the state of hostility between the two countries were officially ended by the Treaty of Paris, which was signed on September 3, 1783, in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States. It also recognized the Thirteen Colonies, which had previously been a part of colonial British America, as an independent and sovereign nation. -
Great Compromise
The Constitutional Convention of 1787 resulted in the Connecticut Compromise, commonly referred to as the Great Compromise of 1787 or the Sherman Compromise. It outlined the representation and legislative structure that each state would have under the US Constitution. -
Constitutional Convention
Although the purpose of the convention was to amend the league of states and the first form of government established by the Articles of Confederation,[2] many of its supporters, including James Madison of Virginia and Alexander Hamilton of New York, had the intention from the beginning to establish a new form of government rather than amend the existing one. -
Bill of Rights adopted
The first ten amendments to the US Constitution are known as the US Bill of Rights. The ideas established in these amendments are an improvement of those outlined in earlier writings, most notably the Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776), the Northwest Ordinance (1787), the English Bill of Rights (1689), and Magna Carta (1215).