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was a meeting in the building that would become Federal Hall in New York City on October 19, 1765
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were a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America
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was an incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops
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after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.
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was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies met
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The Second Continental Congress was 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
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is a statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776,
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was the first constitution of the United States of America and legally established the union of the states
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was signed by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783, ending the War of the American Revolution
