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the Sons of Liberty protested to push back against British rule. Which had also stated the Boston tea party and the stamp act. -
the stamp act was also started by the British they started imposing all the tax papers and documents of the American colonists.
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it helped pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
a confrontation in Boston in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles which had started a war. -
342 chests of tea where dumped into the harbor shipped in by the British East India company. Angry American colonists towards the British because they barged into the "taxation without representation.
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first major battel of the war. The British will win but did lose a lot of soldiers.
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It had everyone's attention on parchments which delegates started signing on August 2,1776. It was also giving the Americans there own freedom to start their own country. -
A treaty signed by American colonist and Great Britain. By signing this document the American revolution had ended.
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3 out of every 5 slaves was counted when determining a states total population for legislative representation and taxation
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The agreement that created today’s our system of congressional representation. They had gotten together to come up with a government. -
It is out first official government that's stayed. the U.S Constitution is the world's longest surviving written charter of the government.
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On this day, The Bill of right was adopted by President Washington who was at the time the president of the U.S.
