Key Events Leading to American Independence

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  • Stamp Act Congress

    Stamp Act Congress
    The Stamp Act Congress 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

  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act
    a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of Customs Act, the Vice Admiralty Court Act, and the New York Restraining Act.[1]

  • Boston Masssacre

    Boston Masssacre
    The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts.

  • boston tea party

    boston tea party
    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.

  • 1st continental congress

    1st continental congress
    Continental Congress
    First Continental Congress
    Declaration and Resolves
    Continental Association
    First Petition to the King Second Continental Congress
    Olive Branch Petition
    Declaration of the Causes...
    Declaration of Independence
    Articles of Confederation Confederation Congress
    Northwest Ordinance Members
    List of delegates
    Presidents The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, a

  • 2nd continental congress

    2nd continental congress
    The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence

  • Declaration of Indepence

    Declaration of Indepence
    Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776

  • articles of confederation

    The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, customarily referred to as the Articles of Confederation, was the first constitution of the United States of America and legally established the union of the states

  • treaty of paris

    treaty of paris
    formally ended the American Revolutionary War between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America, which had rebelled against British rule.