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Beggining of the Enlightment
Enlightment thinkers started uising science to explain occurences in the world. Important figures of the enlightment were voltaire, Thomas Paine, and Diderot. They started believing in peoples freedoms, including natural rights. -
The French Indian War
This war lasted seven year. It lasted from 1756 through 1763. The British fought the French along with their Indian allies. The French were outnumbered. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act reduced the rate of molasses tax to three pence per gallon, The act also listed more foreign goods to be taxed including sugar, some wines, coffee, pimiento, and cambric. This act also regulated the export of lumber and iron. -
The Stamp Act
The new tax was imposed on all colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper used. Ship's papers, legal documents, publications, licenses, and playing cards were taxed.The money collectedt was used to help pay the costs of protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains. -
Boston Tea party
This destruction of tea was led by the Sons of Liberty. It was meant to impose taxes set by the British on all the tea exported into the colonies. They initially tried to send the tea back, with no success. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
the first military engagements of the Revolutionary war.British troops marched from Boston to Concord to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militia began moving to fight the redcoats. -
second continental congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the colonies that met in the summer of 1775. It took place in Philidelphia. Moved the movement towards independence. -
Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense
This book inspired many colonists to fight for their rights. Paine encouraged the poeple to fight for they believed in. He included many enlughtment idealogies in this book. -
The Tea Act
This act would begin the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. This act was meant to ship unused tea to the colonies and sell at a bargain price. The colonists were mad because it would affect merchants, so they boycotted it. -
valley forge
Valley Forge was the site of the military camp of the Continental Army over t 1777–1778 during the Revolutionary War. Its approximately 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Starvation, disease, and exposure killed nearly 2,500 American soldiers by the February 1778. -
Treaty of Paris
This treaty ended the revolutionary war between the U.S and Britain. Big contributors from the U.S were Ben Franklin and John Adams. The allies from both countries had seperate agreements. -
Shay's rebellion
war named after Daniel shay, who fought in the revolution and was a leader. The rebels seized armories from the national government. they conducted a series of surprise attacks. -
Constitutional convention
The plan was to improve the Articles of Conferderation. Some delegates included in this were James Madison, George Washington, and Ben Franklin. They revised acts in the Articles, including issues concerning slaves. -
Ratification of the constitution
On September 17, 1787, a majority of the delegates approved the documents tah had been worked on since may. on September 28 Congress directed the state legislatures to assemble ratification conventions in every state. Article VII said that nine states had to ratify the Constitution for it to go into effect. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a document adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. It declared the colonies independent from britain. Thomas Jefferson mostly wrote the decleration.
