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Restoration
Fought to challenge Dutch commercial supremacy. England obtained a tactical superiority in the Battle of Lowestoft that it failed to press home. The attack on the Dutch in the neutral port of Bergen simply turned Denmark against England. -
Relations between colonies and Britain are straining
he Seven Years War and Indian War drained the British treasury. To pay for the war, England heavily taxed the colonists. This lead to the idea among the colonists of no taxation without representation. -
Sugar Act
April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. -
Boston Massarce
A squad of British soldiers, come to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling, snowballing crowd, let loose a volley of shots. Three persons were killed immediately and two died later of their wounds; among the victims was Crispus Attucks, a man of black or Indian parentage. -
Boston Tea Party
ritish Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773. While consignees in Charleston, New York, and Philadelphia rejected tea shipments, merchants in Boston refused to concede to Patriot pressure. -
The battle of Lexington and Concord
April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. -
Declaration of Independence
The Continental Army voted to declare independence from Britain, and drew up the document the Declaration of Independence. It listed the colonists' grievances with the British rule, an emphasized the colonists' right to revolt against unjust government. -
British surrender
America declared its independence in 1776, but it took another five years to win freedom from the British. That day came on October 19, 1781, when the British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his troops in Yorktown, Virginia. -
Constitutional convention
Place from May 14 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed.Although the Convention had been officially called to revise the existing Articles of Confederation, many delegates had much bigger plans. -
Constitutions was ratified
Finally, Rhode Island, which had rejected the Constitution in March 1788 by popular referendum, called a ratifying convention in 1790 as specified by the Constitutional Convention.
