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Stamp act
The British parliament passed the Stamp Act made colonists to pay a tax and was represented as a stamp on various forms of paper. All this led to the shouting of “ liberty and property!”.to protest the stamp act and taxation without consent. The protest began with petitions, led to refusal to pay the tax , and eventually to property damage and harassment of officials. -
Tea Act
The colonist had never directly paid taxes to the British government , they needed to pay taxes for everything so they reacted with the Tea Act. Drinking tea is a cultural practices, and was very important to the British. The colonies and Britain were really tense. Colonist protested it was illegal to tax without having any representatives in Parliament. -
Boston Tea Party
The colonists throw boxes of tea of three ships. They made because they knew it was going to cost a lot of money.A variety of imports into the colonies were subject to tariffs under the previous Townshend Acts. The Boston Port Bill banned the loading or unloading of any ships in Boston harbor. -
First Continental Congress
The Intolerable Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 with the goal of enforcing martial law and closing the port in order to resolve unrest in colonial Boston. The Sons of Liberty, a group of colonial protestors, replied by calling for a boycott. They discussed to end trade with Britain and raise a military force of colonies . British and colonies were at the edge of tension. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord.
British troops attempted to seize colonial weapons, the colonial military responded with attacks and cost them with a battles, which, Marked the outbreak between the British and the colonial people, all this made the American revolution. This happened in Massachusetts. -
Second Continental congress
A month after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the colonist made a congress with George Washington as the chief of the army he with others made the draft of the Declaration of independence.
During the first two years of the American Revolution, the American colony governments organized their resistance to British rule through the Continental. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence written primarily in the congress by Thomas Jefferson. This declaration stated the 13 colonies independence in America. They created a new country named United States of America this ideas came from the Age of Enlightenment. At this days 4th of July is a festivity about the Declaration -
Battle of Saratoga
This war really benefit to the united states because it convinced France to support the American course of freedom. France provided military aid. They made a agreement to work together until the colonies are free of British influence. They United States won the war with help of France military forces. -
Battle of Yorktown
This battle was won by the United States with the army help of France. The battle finished in Yorktown, Virginia when British was surrendered by French military. King Louis of France helped the American Revolution because supported the idea of the revolution and was rival of Great Britain. -
Treaty of Paris
The treaty of Paris, written by Benjamin Franklin’s ended the war because it recognized the US as an independent country it also established its boundaries
On September 3, 1783, representatives of the United States and Great Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, bringing an end to the American Revolutionary War. The pact provided the United States important western territory and recognized U.S. independence, based on a preliminary treaty from 1782. -
United States Constitution
The base of the United States is this Constitution that states ideas of the era of Enlightenment thinkers. Montesquieu idea is in these papers this ideas consist in three branches of government legislative, judicial and executive paper. Another idea is John Locke about natural rights of freedom like, liberty and property, another Enlightenment thinker was Rousseau of the idea of Social Contract. -
Bill of Rights
Voltaire, Rousseau, and Locke made a ten modification to the Constitution known as the Bill of Rights. These were rights of freedom like freedom of speech,Religion Press etc. Both the Constitution and the Bill of Rights made people change their minds oboist how they think of everything this inspired other countries.