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Enlightenment
The Enlightenment’s important 17th-century precursors included the Englishmen Francis Bacon. -
French & Indian war
The French and Indian War resulted from ongoing frontier tensions in North America as both French and British imperial officials and colonists sought to extend each country’s sphere of influence in frontier regions. -
Stamp Act
On March 22, 1765, The stamp act was imposed to provide increased reverences to meet the costs of defending the enlarged British empire. -
Townshend Act of 1767
A series of four acts, the Townshend Acts were passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant representative assembly and through strict provisions for the collection of revenue duties. -
Sons Of Liberty
The sons of liberty was make in the 1773 and was make by Samuel Adams. The Sons’ most prominent leader was Samuel Adams, the son of a wealthy brewer who was more interested in radical rabble-rousing than commerce -
Boston Tea Party
The boston tea party was made December 16, 1773, the boston tea party because of a group of men had dump a lot of ship and chest . -
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
Olive Branch Petition sent to England
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5th, 1775 to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. The Petition emphasized their loyalty to the British crown and emphasized their rights as British citizens. -
Second Continental Congress meets
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. -
Treaty of Paris signed
he American colonies and Great Britain, ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation. -
Great Compromise
Weeks before the Constitutional Convention convened on July 16, 1787, the framers had already made several important decisions about how the Senate should be structured -
Constitutional Convention
the Convention had been officially called to revise the existing Articles of Confederation, many delegates had much bigger plans. -
Constitution is ratified
the government of the United States of America when New Hampshire became the ninth of 13 states to ratify it. The journey to ratification, however, was a long and arduous process. -
Bill of Rights adopted
The bill of right adopted was make on December 15 ,1791,The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion, speech, and the press, and the rights of peaceful assembly and petition.
