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England and her colonies defeated France and Native American allies. With the British treasury drained, Britain thought colonists should pay their share. -
The Navigation Acts were imposed in 1763 to restrict colonial trade. Considering the colonists were working hard towards establishing trade, this angered them. -
Put into place on March 22nd, 1765, the Stamp Act was made to tax and squeeze out money from the Americans. This caused unrest and rebellion among the colonists. -
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five American protesters. This assisted in uniting the colonies against Britain. -
In an effort to save their failing tea industry, the British imposed a heavy tea tax on the colonists on May 10th, 1773. This greatly irritated the Americans, and it eventually led to the Boston Tea Party. -
On December 16th, 1773, several colonists threw large shipments of tea away in the Boston harbor in response to the Tea Act. This increased tensions between the British and the Americans. -
The Intolerable Acts were a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party to punish Massachusetts. These laws angered the colonists even more. -
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies from September 5, 1774 to October 26, 1774 to discuss the British’s ongoing aggression and the future of America. -
Congress came together at the beginning of May 1775 to prepare for war after the events at Lexington and Concorde. -
On April 19th, 1775, the battles of Lexington and Concord were fought. They were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
On September 17, 1787, 39 of the 55 delegates signed the new document. This gave America its own government, separating it from Britain. -
Adopted on July 4th, 1776, this voiced the colonists’ will to be a separate nation, and sparked the beginning of the revolution. -
Starting on September 19th, 1777 and ending on October 7th the same year, this battle marked the climax of the war, and it gave the Americans a decisive victory that greatly affect the revolution’s outcome. -
From December 19th, 1777 to June 19th, 1778 Congress fled to the Valley Forge encampment to escape British capture. -
Starting September 28th, 1781 and ending October 19th, 1781, this battle was dubbed “the day the world turned upside down” because the American and French army came together to force a decisive surrender against the British. This was a significant turning point in the war. -
During 1787, the Constitution of the United States was written to outline the rules and establishment of the American government.