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Declaration of Rights and Grievances
The Declaration of Rights and Grievances was a document created and passed October 19, 1765 by the Stamp Act Congress, declaring that taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional -
The boston tea party
December 16, 1773, a group of men calling themselves the "Sons of Liberty" went to the Boston Harbor. The men were dressed as Mohawk Indians. They boarded three British ships, the Beaver, the Eleanor and the Dartmouth, and dumped forty-five tons of tea into the Boston Harbor. -
First Continental Congress
was a convention of delegates from twelve British North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
Revolutinary War Begins
began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, -
The Second Contiental Congress
e Second Continental Congress established the militia as the Continental Army to represent the thirteen states. They also elected George Washington as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. -
Declartion of independece
The Declaration of Independence was a statement , which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles created a loose confederation of sovereign states and a weak central government, leaving most of the power with the state governments -
Revolutionary war ends
ended in a global war between several European great powers, such as conflicts in India and West Africa between Great Britain and France. -
Constitutional Congress opens
For four months, 55 delegates from the several states met to frame a Constitution for a federal republic that would last into "remote futurity." -
First draft of the constitution is signed
The members of the Constitutional Convention signed the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
