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Stamp Act
Created the right to tax legal and official papers to raise money for army expenses -
Boston Tea Party
People through tea that is taxed by the British into the water as a protest to the cause of 'no taxation without representation' -
Townshend Act
Initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, tea -
Boston Massacre
Seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony. -
Intolerable acts
4 laws written by the British in order to punish Massachusetts for the Boston tea party -
First continental congress meeting
The Congress first met in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774, with delegates from each of the 13 colonies except Georgia -
Olive Branch petition passed to British king
The olive branch petition was a last attempt sent to the kind to spare both sides from war being declared. -
Adopted Declaration of Independence
The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence -
The Second Continental Congress meets
The Second Continental Congress and the Declaration of Independence. The Second Continental Congress met inside Independence Hall beginning in May 1775. It was just a month after shots had been fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, and the Congress was preparing for war -
Treaty of Paris
The treaty that ended the revolutionary war of US and Britain -
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Constitutional convention
A convention of delegates from all the states except Rhode Island met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
3/5 Compromise
It determined that three out of every five slaves were counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation. -
Ratification of constitution
to create a government with enough power to act on a national level, but without so much power that fundamental rights would be at risk. -
Great Compromise
The Connecticut Compromise (also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman Compromise) was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation each state would have under the United States Constitution. -
Bill of rights adopted
guarantees civil rights and liberties to the individual—like freedom of speech, press, and religion. It sets rules for due process of law and reserves all powers not delegated to the Federal Government to the people or the States.