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Parliament passed the Sugar Act
This taxed all tea and coffee. -
Parliament passes the Stamp Act
new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used -
Boston Massacre
was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under intense attack by a mob -
Boston Tea Party
On the 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 -
Battle of Lexington & Concord (American Revolution)
Battle of Lexington and Concord was the first military engagement of the American Revolutionary War -
Declaration of Independence
Was the statement which announced that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer were under British Rule. It reflected the enlightenment thinking by the idea that all people are entitled to certain rights just by virtue of being human, belief that a government's legitimacy comes from the consent of the governed, and a governments main purpose is to protect the rights of the people. -
Battle of Saratoga
Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. -
British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia
On October 19, 1781, the British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his troops in Yorktown, Virginia -
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 -
Ratification of the US Constitution
Reflected Enlightenment ideas such as liberalism and philosophical ideas.
