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Enlightenment
The movement that focused mostly on the freedom of speech, equality, freedom of press, and religious tolerance. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian war began over the specific issue of whether the upper Ohio river valley was a part of the British empire, and therefore open for trade and settlement by Virginians and Pennsylvanians , or part of the French empire. -
The Stamp Act
The stamp act imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the American colonies but not in England. -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty were a grassroots group of instigators and provocateurs in colonial America who used an extreme for of civil disobedience-threats, and in some case actual violence to intimidate loyalists and outrage the British government. -
Townshend Act of 1767
They were a series of measures passed by the British parliament in 1767 that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. American colonists saw this as an abuse of power. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston massacre was a deadly riot that happened on the king street in Boston. It began a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier and quickly escalated. -
The Boston Tea Party
A political protest at Griffin's wharf in Boston Massachusetts. American colonists mad at Britain imposing taxation without representation. They dumped 342 chests of tea imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
They were a series of punitive laws passed by the British parliament in 1774 after the Boston tea party. The laws aimed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the tea party -
Thomas Paine's Common Sense Published
After the battles of Lexington and Concord, Paine argued that the cause of America should not be just a revolt against taxation but a demand for independence. He put his idea into common sense which came off the press on January 10, 1776 -
Treaty of Paris Is Signed
The treaty was signed between the American colonies and Great Britain. It ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United Nations as an independent nation. -
The Great Compromise
The great compromise also known as the Connecticut compromise was an agreement reached during the constitutional convention of 1787 that defined the legislature structure and representation each state would have under the constitution. -
3/5 Compromise
compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and Southern states at the constitutional convention that 3/5 of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the house of representatives. -
Constitution is Ratified
The constitution became the official framework of the government of the United States when New Hampshire became the ninth of the 13 states to ratify it. -
Bill of Rights Adopted
President Washington sent out copies of the 12 amendments adopted by congress of the states. Three-fourths of the states had ratified 10 of these now known as the bill of rights.
