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Declaration of Rights and Grievances
was a document pass by the stamp act congress which declared that tax put on british colonist with out them know was unconstitutional. this was directed at the Stamp Act which required that documents, newspapers, to be printed on special stamped and taxed paper. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an act of civil disobedience against the high tax rates the king. put on not only tea but sugar and stamp and many more items. The colonist were mad because they had no reprsentation in England.the colonist dressed as native Americans and dumped the tea into the harbor. -
First Continental Congress
The First continetal congresswas a convention on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.It was called in response to the passage of the intolerable Acts by the British Parliament. The Intolerable Acts had punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party. -
Revolutionary War begins
The people of America were angry because they had to pay un fair taxes with even having a word in the decsion.The King of England sent his army to the colonies, The british soliders tried to make the colonists pay the taxes. The colonists wanted to be free from England. They refused to listen to the british soliders they began to have conflicts and the war began and George Washington led American army. -
2nd Continental Congress meets
Delegates of all thirteen colonies met in state house of philidalphia. Including new delegates John Hancock from Massachusetts, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, and Benjamin Franklin from Pennsylvania ,they made the militia the continental army and made George Washington Chief of the continental Army. -
Declaration of independence signed
July 4th of 1776 was the date te declaration of independence was sign by 56 delegates. The document declared independence from the british empire. -
Articles of Confederation Signed
the Articles of Confederation was the first real form of goverment the U.S had. -
The End of the Revolutionary War
It effectively ended in October, 1781 in Yorktown, VA after George Washington forced General Cornwallis to surrender after the siege there. But the Revolutionary War didn't officially end until the Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783. -
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Constitutional Congress opens
They disscused problems that came up while being govern by The Articles of Confederation. the perpous was to make a new goverment instead of fixing it.the result of the convention was the United States Constitution. -
Final Draft of the Constitution Signed
The product of four months of secret debate, the Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation and proposed an entirely new form of government.
