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Boston Tea Party
An action by the colonists in the British colony of Massachusetts against the British government and the East India government that controlled all the tea import. On December 16, 1773 Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain. A group of colonists climbed aborad those ships and threw all the tea into the Boston Harbor.The Tea party was the culmination of resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which was passed in 1773 by the British Parliament. -
First Continental Congress
Delegates from twelve British North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The Congress met briefly to consider options, including an economic boycott of British trade; rights and grievances; and petitioning King George III for redress of those grievances. The Congress also called for another Continental Congress in the event that their petition was unsuccessful in halting enforcement of the Intolerable Acts. -
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
In March, 1774, the British Parliament passed a series of laws they referred to as the Coercive Acts. The Americans called them the Intolerable Acts. The Acts were primarily designed to punish the colony of Massachusetts for defying British policies; specifically, for the Boston Tea Party. Outrage in the Americas over the Intolerable Acts led to the calling of the First Continental Congress in September, 1774. -
Revolutionary War Begins
Began as a war between Great Britain and the Thirteen British colonies in North America as a result of the political American Revolution.The Revolutionary War was seeded in April 1775 when General Thomas Gage, the British commander in chief in America, decided to make a surprise march from his headquarters in Boston to nearby Concord. General Gage hoped to seize a storehouse of rebel guns and ammunition and possibly arrest some of the rebels’ leaders. -
2nd Continental Congress
A convention of delagates from the Thirteen original colonies that began meeting on May 10, 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after the American Revolutionary war began.It succeeded the First Continental Congress on September 5, 1774. They managed the colonial war effort, and moved towards declaring independence from the British Empire in 1776, but many delagates lacked authority to take such action. -
Declaration of Independence signed
A statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776 which declared the thirteeen colonies as independent states and no longer part of the British Empire. Congress voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, a year after the American Revolutionary war.The Independence Day of the United States of America is celebrated on July 4, the day Congress approved the wording of the Declaration. -
Articles of Confederation
An agreement among the 13 founding states that legally established the United States of America. It served as its first constitution ad its drafting by the Continental Congress began in mid 1776 and later an approved version was ratified in 1777. -
Revolutionary war Ends
The Revolutionary War finally ended only when the treaty of peace was signed by the British in Paris in 1783.A series of events put together was called the Revolutionary War and many important battles were fought within the war period. The American Revolutionary War took place in almost entire America with every state being affected. Finally when it ended, the British were still present in the country and there was still rife among the citizens of America. -
Constitutional Convention opens
A convention that was held to address problems in the government of the United States. The convention was intended to revise the Articles of Confederation. Chiefs amoung them were James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. There intentions were to create a new government rather than fixing the existing one. -
Final draft of the Constituion signed.
The Constitution of the United States of America is signed by 38 of 41 delegates present at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Supporters of the document waged a hard-won battle to win ratification by the necessary nine out of 13 U.S. states.
