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Suggested by Benjamin Franklin, it was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized, unified government. It was the first important proposal to have the colonies as a whole united under one government.
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British parliament required American colonists to pay tax on every piece of printed paper they used. It led to an uproar in America that was a major cause of the Revolution.
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British soldiers in Boston were being tormented by gangs and then started shooting a group of American colonists and killed five men. It united the colonists against Britain.
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Protest by colonists in Boston against the tea tax. Boston patriots dressed up as Indians and raided three British ships in Boston Harbor and dumped over three hundred containers of tea into the harbor. It's important because of the British and American responses to what happened after the tea party.
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Passed by British Parliament, used as punishment for the destruction made during the Boston Tea Party and caused an outrage for colonists.
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Representatives from each colony except Georgia met in Philadelphia to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive acts.
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It was the first revolutionary battle, the British soldiers were sent out to capture colonial weapons and ran into an untrained militia. The militia defeats the British soldiers.
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War fought between Britain and thirteen colonies after growing tensions because the colonists were tired of British rule.
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Had many of the same delegates from the first continental congress and managed war effort and finances, the Patriots moved slowly towards independence with the help of congress.
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Document written by Thomas Jefferson, showed that the colonists had a right to separate from the king and established the United States as its own nation. It states the goals of the nation, complaints against the king, and the arguments the colonists used to explain why they wanted to be free from Britain.
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The French assisted the thirteen colonies force the British surrender at Yorktown. War ended after British captured most of France's major cities.
