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sons of liberty
The Sons of Liberty was a secret underground society created from the political fall down of the French and Indian War. The war, which took place throughout the world, was just one part of a larger conflict called the Seven Years War, a war that many historians consider to be “The First World War.” -
The stamp act of 1765
The stamp act was made to raise money to pay for the army through a tax on all legal papers and publications in the colonies. They would be more taxed on papers, documents, playing cards, etc. -
3/5 Compromise
The three fifths compromise was the agreement between north and south states at the U.S. Constitutional Convention. That 3/5 the worlds slaves would be taxed -
The Townshend act
The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. But American colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw the Acts as an abuse of power. -
Boston Massacre
On March 5, 1770, seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston tea party was an incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. The Americans were protesting both a tax on tea (taxation without representation). -
Battles of Lexington and concord
he first battle of the Revolutionary War , fought in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries. (the shots heard around the world) -
Second Congress Meeting
The Second Continental Congress was the late 18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War, which established American independence from the British Empire. -
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Battle of York town
The Battle of Yorktown was the engagement of the American Revolution. The British surrender forecast the end of British rule in the colonies and the birth of a new nation—the United States of America. -
Treaty of Paris signed
the treaty ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation. -
Great compromise
The Great Compromise established the United States legislature as a bicameral, or two-house law-making body. In the Senate, each state would be allowed two representatives; in the House of Representatives, the number of representatives allowed for each state would be determined by its population -
Constitution is ratified
the Constitution became the official framework of the government of the United States of America when New Hampshire became the ninth of 13 states to ratify it -
First congress meeting
he first Continental Congress in the United States met in Philadelphia to consider its reaction to the British government's restraints on trade and representative government after the Boston Tea Party