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Enlightenment
During the late 17th and the 18th centuries, or, more comprehensively, between the Glorious Revolution in 1688 and the French Revolution of 1789. -
French and Indian War
British win Battle of Quebec. Montcalm and Wolfe, the commanding generals of both armies, die in battle in 1759. French siege of Quebec fails in the 1760. Montreal falls to the British letters are signed finishing the surrender of Canada in 1760. The British won in 1663. -
Sons of Liberty
The Boston Tea Party, Patrick Henry's " Liberty of Death " speech, Battles of Lexington and Concord, Statue of Liberty, and Samuel Adams. -
Stamp Act of 1765
It required colonists to pay taxes on every page of printed paper they used. The tax also included fees for playing cards, dice, and newspapers. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
At the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775, early in the Revolutionary War, the British defeated the Americans. Despite their loss. -
Olive Branch Petition sent to England
The Olive Branch Petition was an attempt to appease the conflict between the British colonies in America and the British Crown after the Battles of Lexington and Concord and other conflicts. -
Declaration of Independence adopted
On July 4, Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, which was first drafted by Thomas Jefferson and edited to the final version by the Congress. -
Battle of Yorktown
September 28–October 19, 1781, joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. The siege virtually ended military operations in the American Revolution. -
Treaty of Paris signed
September 3, 1783, between the American colonies and Great Britain, ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation. -
Great Compromise
In 1787, delegates came together at the Constitutional Convention to address national reform. The resolution of this debate became known as the Great Compromise of 1787 and resulted in the creation of the United States Constitution. -
3/5 Compromise
The United States Constitutional Convention (1787) that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives. -
Bill of Rights adopted
In the summer of 1787, delegates from the 13 states convened in Philadelphia and drafted a remarkable blueprint for self-government -- the Constitution of the United States.