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The Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act was a meeting in the building that would become Federal Hall in New York City on October 19, 1765 consisting of delegates from 9 of the 13 colonies that discussed and acted upon the recently passed Stamp Act -
The Townshend Acts
British legislation intended to raise revenue, tighten customs enforcement, and assert imperial authority in America. These events were sponsored by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshen and enacted on June 29, 1767. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was an incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops on March 5, 1770, the legal aftermath of which helped spark the rebellion in some of the British American colonies, which culminated in the American Revolution. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government. Boston officials refused to return 3 shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, resulting in the colonists throwing tea into the Boston Harbor. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
The Second Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. It managed the colonial war effort, and moved slowly towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776. -
Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. -
The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783, ending the War of the American Revolution. -
The Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation was the first constitution of the United States of America and legally established the union of the states.
