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French & Indian War
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A war between Great Britain and France. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
Stamp Act of 1765
British Parliament passed the “Stamp Act” to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the French and Indian War. The act required the colonists to pay a tax. -
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Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was a secret revolutionary organization that was founded in the Thirteen American Colonies to fight taxation by the British government. It played a major role in most colonies in battling the Stamp Act in 1765. -
Townshend Act of 1767
It taxed goods imported to the American colonies. But American colonists saw the Acts as an abuse of power. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot on King Street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter. -
Battle of Yorktown
The last battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in 1781 near the seacoast of Virginia. There the British general Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army to General George Washington. -
Boston Tea Party
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American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
First Continental Congress meets
It was a meeting of delegates from the British colonies. The delegates also urged each colony to set up and train its own militia. -
Battles of Lexington & Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought in the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge. -
Second Continental Congress meets
After violence broke out between Britain and its American colonies in 1775, delegates from the thirteen colonies met in Philadelphia to plot the course of war and soon, independence. -
Declaration of Independence adopted
The Declaration of Independents was a letter sighed on July 4, 1776. The 13 colonies wanted to be independent -
Treaty of Paris signed
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War between Great Britain and France. In the treaty France gave up all its territories in North America -
Great Compromise
Great Compromise provided a dual system of congressional representation. In the House of Representatives each state would be assigned a number of seats in proportion to its population. -
Bill of Rights adopted
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The Bill of Rights is the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution.It evens out Americans' rights in relation to their government.
