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The French Indian War
A conflict between France and Great Britain that resulted in Britain taking over all French lands in North America. -
The sugar Act
The Sugar Act is an act passed by the British Parliament in 1764. It placed a tax of three cents on sugar that was bought by the American colonists. -
The Stamp Act
The tax required Americans to pay tax on every piece of printed paper used. -
The Tea Act
Cruise directly to the American colonies to export their tea instead of going first to Britain and then export it again to the same colonies. -
The Boston Tea Party
Chopped open the tea trunks they found onboard and dumped almost 10,000 pounds (about 4,500 kilograms) of tea into the harbor. -
Battle of the Lexington and Concord
British troops were sent to Concord to capture John Hancock and Samuel Adams, but both men had been warned about the British attack. -
The Second Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies -
Thomas Paine publishes Commne Sense
The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
A statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies. -
Valley Forge
Valley Forge is the story of the six month encampment of the Continental Army of the newly formed United States of America under the command of General George Washington. -
Treaty of Paris
Officially ended the revolution, and recognized the United States of America as an independent nation. -
Constiutional Convention
The convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787. -
Ratification of the Constitution
A majority of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention approved the documents over which they had labored since May. -
Shay's Rebellion
Uprising in western Massachusetts. In a period of economic depression and land seizures for debt collection, -
The Beginning of the Enlightenment
When historians have given dates, the English Civil wars and revolutions are sometimes given as the start, as they influenced Thomas Hobbes and one of the Enlightenment’s
