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Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe. -
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French & Indian War
Many view the French and Indian War as being merely the American theater of this conflict. The British colonists were supported by the Iroquois, Catawba, and Cherokee tribes, and the French supported by Abenaki Mi'kmaq, Algonquin, Lenape, Ojibwa, Ottawa, Shawnee, and Wyandot. -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was a loosely organized, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies. It played a major role in most colonies in battling the Stamp Act in 1765 and throughout the entire of the American Revolution. -
Stamp act of 1765
Sought to raise money to pay for this army through a tax on all legal and official papers. Colonists suggested that it was actually a matter of British patronage to surplus British officers and career soldiers who should be paid by London. -
The Townshend Acts
To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. The Townshend Acts met resistance in the colonies and people debated them in the streets, and in the colonial newspapers. -
Boston Massacre
Seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony. Tense relations between the civilians and the soldiers, a mob formed around a British sentry and verbally abused him. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an American protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts, the target was the Tea Act. The Sons of Liberty strongly opposed the taxes in the Townshend Act as a violation of their rights, the Sons of Liberty disguised as Native Americans and destroyed an entire shipment of tea. -
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Intolerable Acts were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. The four acts were the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act. -
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First Continental Congress meets
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates of 12 of the Thirteen Colonies. It was held from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia at the beginning of the American Revolution. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought during the Siege of Boston in the first stage of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, it was the original objective of both the colonial and British troops. -
Battle of Trenton
After crossing the Delaware River George Washington’s army defeated a garrison of Hessian mercenaries at Trenton. The victory set the stage for another success at Princeton a week later and boosted the morale of the American troops. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S. and British Representatives ending the War of the American Revolution. Based on a 1782 preliminary treaty, the agreement recognized U.S. independence and granted the U.S. significant western territory. -
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. Before the Civil War, the Three-Fifths Compromise gave a disproportionate representation of slave states in the House of Representatives. -
Great Compromise
The Great Compromise was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787. It defined the legislative structure and representation each state would have under the United States Constitution. -
Bill of Rights adopted
President Washington sent copies of the 12 amendments adopted by Congress to the states. December 15, 1791, three-fourths of the states had ratified 10 of these, now known as the “Bill of Rights.”