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The Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower compact were a list of rules of self-governance that was made by the puritans that come to American by Mayflower. -
Boston Tea Party
During the 1760s, the British was in deep debt. So they taxed very harshly on the colonists. The British government felt the taxes were fair since much of its debt was earned fighting wars on the colonists’ behalf. The colonists, however, disagreed. So they held a protest against the British government. They dressed up as Native Americans and throw tea into the sea. -
1st Continental Congress
This is the response to Intolerable Acts. It closed Boston to merchant shipping, established formal British military rule in Massachusetts, The colonists subsequently called the first Continental Congress to consider a united American resistance to the British. They wished to reach compromise, so they sent Declaration of Rights and Grievances to George the third. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was the first formal statement made by the nation's people asserting their rights to their government. The main purpose are to declare that all men are created equal, and all shall have the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In mid-June 1776, a five-man committee including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams , Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherm, Robert Livingston draft the statement. And on July 4, 1776 America's Independence was born -
End of the Revolutionary War
After the Battle of Yorktown, in the late 1782 the British finally pointed to the end of the conflict. On September 3, 1783, Great Britain formally recognized the independence of the United States in the Treaty of Paris. -
Shey's Rebellion
The Shey's Rebellion are series are violent attacks on courthouses and other government properties in Massachusetts that began in 1786 and led to a full-blown military confrontation in 1787. The rebellion were held by mostly ex-Revolutionary War soldiers-turned farmers who opposed state economic policies causing poverty and property foreclosures. -
Constitutional Convention Begins
The Constitutional Convention begin to meet at the State House in Philadelphia. Which is the same house that signed the Declaration of Independence -
The Virginia Plan
Edmund Randolph came up the Virginia Plan, who provided centralized government and the representation will be based on the population -
The New Jersey Plan
William Paterson presents the New Jersey Plan, which called equal representation for each state. The Southerners also abandon their attempts to get each of their slaves counted as a whole person for the sake of bolstering their congressional representation. -
The Great Compromise
Against: Pennsylvania, Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia
Agree: North Carolina, Maryland, New Jersey, and Connecticut
This compromise finally resolves the conflict between large and small states over the basis of representation in the new government. -
Presidency
The concept of a president is born! It will be chosen by hosen by the national legislature for seven years. But there will not be a second term. -
New York Ratifies
New York become the twelve state to to ratify the Constitution. New York’s ratification message was the longest of any of the state conventions, and proposed 25 items in a Bill of Rights and 31 amendments to the Constitution. -
First Congress
The first congress meeting under the new Constitution of the United States begins in New York. -
George Washington Elected
On April 6, 1789. George Washington was elected as the first president and John Adams as the vice. -
Bill of Rights Enacted
The Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson announces the ratification of the Bill of Rights . And the first 10 amendments was born.
