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Navagaton Act
Navigation Acts were a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between every country except Britain. These Acts formed the basis for British overseas trade for nearly 200 years (which later on after these years, ended). During the time, the Acts of Trade and Navigation were obeyed, except for the Molasses Act of 1733. This led to extensive smuggling because no effective means of enforcement was provided until the 1750s. -
George 111 became king of Brtian
King George III was king of the British kingdom through some rough times including the American Revolutionary War after which the colonies gained independence. A year after he was crowned king, he married Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The day they met was the day they married. After all the 50 years together, they had 15 children. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War. The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France. Both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, same as Native American allies. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was started by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. The British government responded harshly when the demonstrators, some disguised as Native Americans, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773 destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company and the episode escalated into the American Revolution. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to "The passage of the Coercive Acts" by the British Parliament. -
The Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that, soon after warfare, declared the American Revolutionary War had begun. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, the second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence(July 4,1776). -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776. Which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Two prominent thinkers, one directly and one indirectly, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States. These men were Paine and Locke. -
The United States Constitution
The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. The Constitution, originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national frame of government. Since the Constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended twenty-seven times. In general, the first ten amendments, known collectively as the Bill of Rights, offer specific protections of individual liberty and justice. Paine and Locke were apart of this act. -
The Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. Proposed following the oftentimes bitter 1787–88 battle over ratification of the U.S. Constitution, and crafted to address the objections raised by Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights amendments add certain safeguards of democracy.
