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The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act Congress issued a Declaration of Rights and Grievances, which declared allegiance to the King and all due subordination to Parliament, but also reasserted the idea that colonists were entitled to the same rights as native Britons. -
Intolerable Act
Allowed new governor General Thomas Gage to house British soldiers in private homes, inns, and other buildings without permission from colonists. -
Declaration Of Independence
in U.S. history, document that was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and that announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. It explained why the Congress on July 2 “unanimously” by the votes of 12 colonies (with New York abstaining) had resolved that “these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be Free and Independent States.” -
The Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown proved to be the decisive 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. -
The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783, ending the War of the American Revolution. -
The Constitutional Convention
The fifty-five delegates who met in Philadelphia between May 25 and September 17, 1787, would not only reject the Articles of Confederation altogether, but they would produce the first written constitution for any nation in the history of the world -
The French Revolution
the Parisian crowd seized the Bastille, a symbol of royal tyranny. Again the king had to yield; visiting Paris, he showed his recognition of the sovereignty of the people by wearing the tricolour cockade. In the provinces, the Great Fear of July led the peasants to rise against their lords -
Bill of Rights
three-fourths of the existing State legislatures ratified the first 10 Amendments of the Constitution—the Bill of Rights.