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French and Indian War
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The French and Indian War was an imperial war between Great Britain and France. This war was also known as the "Seven Years' War". Although Great Britain won the war and got territorial gains, they struggled to decide who to pay for the war's expenses which ultimately led to the American Revolution. -
Stamp Act of 1765
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The stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax given to Americans colonist by the British Parliament. The act in which was a tax on all paper documents in the colonies. This tax was given because the British were in debt from the French and Indian War which angered many colonists. This led to a riots and mob violence until the act was repealed in 1766. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a very deadly riot on King Street in Boston. When it began it was just a fight between American colonist and a single British soldier. It then escalated into a full on riot between the two. This ended in a total of 5 deaths and 6 injured. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest public act that occurred at Griffins Wharf in Boston.When American colonist were angered by the imposed taxes on essential products like paper, paint, glass, lead, and tea by the British Parliament, the Sons of Liberty which was a group of colonial merchants and tradesmen, dumped 342 chests of imported tea into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
A series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. For example, one of the laws closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea that they had destroyed. Although the acts were intended to check colonial opposition to Britain, they only inflamed it. -
First Continental Congress Meets
The Continental Congress was a meeting that involved 12 out of 13 British colonies that became the United States. It happened at Carpenters' Hall Philidelphia, Pennsylvania after the British Navy instituted a blockade. This meeting was to form a colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. -
Declaration of Independence Adopted
The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress when the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists’ motivations for seeking independence. When they became an independent nation, the American colonists could confirm an official alliance with the Government of France and obtain French assistance in the war against Great Britain. -
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Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown was also known as the Siege of Yorktown. It was lead by General George Washington, he commanded a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops. In the end, peace was finally settled with the Treaty of Paris. -
Treaty of Paris signed
The Treaty of Paris was signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America. This treaty officially ended the American Revolutionary War and included fishing rights and restoration of property and prisoners of war. -
3/5 Compromise
The three-fifths compromise was a compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives. -
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Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention was the gathering that drafted the Constitution. Meeting in Philidelphia, this meeting designed a government with three separate branches and it established Congress as a lawmaking body with two houses: each state is given two representatives in the Senate, whereas a representation in the House of Representatives is based on population. -
Great Compromise
The Great Compromise, also known as The Connecticut Compromise and the Sherman Compromise, created two legislative bodies in Congress. There would be two national legislatures in a bicameral Congress. Members of the House of Representatives would be allocated according to each state's population and elected by the people. -
Bill of Rights Adopted
The Bill of Rights gave us the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, confirming the fundamental rights of American citizens. The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion, speech, and the press, the rights of peaceful assembly and petition.
