Events from the American Revolution

Sons of Liberty

1765

The Sons of Liberty were a group of instigators and provocateurs in colonial America who used an extreme form of civil disobedience and violence to intimidate loyalist.

Stamp Act

Mar 22, 1765

The stamp act was passed by the British parliament. To help pay for British Troops stationed in the colonies during the seven year's war.

Townshend act

Jun 29, 1767

Taxed goods are imported to the American colony. They did it so the government can have money to pay expenses.

Boston Massacre

Mar 5, 1770

Colonist in Boston are upset they have to pay taxes so they start a riot. The British soldiers help guard.

Battles of Lexingtion & Concord

Apr 19, 1772

Hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to Concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat column. More battles followed up after that but the Colonist won the battle

Coercive Acts

1773

The Parliament passed four new laws. These laws were to punish Massachusetts and put an end to colonial challenges to British authority.

Boston Tea Party

Dec 16, 1773

The colonists get angry because they did not want to pay taxes. So they dumped tea.

First Continental Congress Meets

Sep 5, 1774

The first Continental Congress met in 1774 in reaction to the horrible acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government after the colonies resisted new taxes.

Declaration of Independence

Aug 2, 1776

A document approved by the continental congress.
This document announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from great Britain.

Treaty Of Paris signed

Sep 3, 1783

This treaty between the American colonies and Great Britain ended the American revolution and formally recognized the United states as an independent nation.

3/5 Compromise

1787

This agreement was the counting of slaves in determining a state's total population.

Great Compromise

Jul 16, 1787

It started with a heated dispute between larger population and the smaller population and both of them wanted different types of representation.

Constitutional Convention

Sep 17, 1787

The point of the event was to decide how America was going to be governed.

Bill of Rights

Dec 15, 1791

The Founding Fathers turned the composition of the states and then the federal Constitution. Even tho the Bill of Rights wasn't important at the time they realized it was gonna be needed.