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Sugar Act of 1764
The American Revenue Act of 1764, called Sugar Act, was a law that attempted the robbery of sugar and molasses in the colonies by decreasing the previous tax rate and enforcing the collection of duties. It added several products such as hides, skins and potash to the list of enumerated commodities that could be legally exported under the Navigation Acts. It was introduced by the new British Prime Minister, George Grenville. -
Stamp Act of 1765
Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every thing of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications were taxed -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under intense attack by a mob. The incident was heavily propagandized by leading Patriots, such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams, to fuel animosity toward the British authorities. And Five were killed causing a war -
Boston Tea Party
Night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. It resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides much closer to war. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). 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. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, -
Declaration Of Independence
Adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House Independence Hall in Philly on July 4 1776 which that the thirteen American colonies of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen new independent sovereign states,and not under British
government’s legitimacy from the consent of the governed Finally the Declaration of Independence incorporates the Enlight idea that a governments main purpose to protect people -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battle or Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War.
The scope of the victory is made clear by a few key facts: On October 17, 1777, 5,895 British and Hessian troops surrendered their arms. -
British Surrender at Yorktown,Virginia
October 19, 1781, the British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his troops in Yorktown, Virginia. Cornwallis brought 8,000 British troops to Yorktown. Expected help from British ships sent from New York and the British ships never arrived. -
Constitutional Convention
September 1786, at the Annapolis Convention, delegates from five states called for a Constitutional Convention in order to discuss possible improvements to the Articles of Confederation. The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia on May 14, 1787.[constitutional convention united states] -
Ratification of the U.S. Convention
U.S. Constitution was adopted and signed in September 1787, but signing wasn't enough. It had to be ratified by nine of the 13 states before it became binding. That happened when New Hampshire ratified it on June 21, 1788
