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While the Enlightenment of the late 17th and 18th centuries was a time when the science blossomed and revolutions in the United States and France occurred, it was also a time when millions of people were enslaved and transported from Africa to the Western Hemisphere. This period people were also growing weary of religious authorities having strong political power, and the idea of religious freedom was becoming more and more popular. -
The English and the French battled for the colonial domination in North America, the Caribbean, and in India. The English did ultimately come to take over and dominate the colonial outposts. It was that the debt that caused the escalation of tensions leading to the Revolutionary War. -
Americans reaction to the Stamp Act was swift and intense, the first official stamps came from the Virginia House Burgesses. The Stamp Act Congress met in New York in October and produced a document called "The Declaration of Rights and Grievances", -
The origins of the Sons of Liberty are unclear, but some of the organization’s roots can be traced to the Loyal Nine, a secretive Boston political organization. The Boston is the chapter of the Sons of Liberty often met under cover of darkness beneath the “Liberty Tree". -
The Townshend Acts were not opposed as quickly as the earlier Stamp Act, resentment regarding the British rule of the Colonies grew over time. John Dickinson wrote a series of essays entitled “Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania” that provided a strategic vision to defeat the British government -
The Boston Massacre was a event leading to the Revolutionary War, It led directly to the Royal Governor evacuating the occupying army from the town of Boston. More than 2,000 British Soldiers occupied the city of 16,000 colonist and tried to enforced Britain's tax laws, the Massacre was a street fight between Patriot Mob fighting throwing sticks, and stones, and etc several colonist were murdered and this led British captain Thomas Preston to call additional soldiers. -
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. They dumped 342 chests of tea, that was imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
The First Continental Congress convened in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between September 5 and October 26, 1774 the Delegates from twelve of Britain's thirteen American colonies met to discuss America's future under growing British aggression. -
The British Army set out from Boston to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington, kicked off the American Revolutionary War the tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. -
It was the earliest form of a declaration of independence, Lee famously declared, After there were many heated debates the Congress delayed the vote for approval of the Lee Resolution and decided to reconvene on July 1, 1776. They were declaring themselves as an independent nation, the American colonists were able to confirm an official alliance with the Government of France and obtain French assistance in the war against Great Britain. -
The Articles of Confederation were served as the written document that was established as the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. It was established as a weak central government, it prevented the individual states from conducting their own foreign diplomacy.
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After the grueling march, the American and French forces arrived near Yorktown and immediately begin the hard work of laying siege to Corn Wallis and his men, After six years of war both the British and Continental armies were exhausted. General George Washington and his continental army had a decision to strike a decisive blow to British in New York city or aim for the south of Yorktown, With the help of French partner engineers the American and French troops inflicted damage on the British. -
The British, for instance, refused to relinquish several of its forts in the former Northwest Territory. While the Americans, for their part, continued to confiscate property from citizens that had remained loyal to the British Crown during the war. -
The Great Compromise, also known as the Sherman Compromise, was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention. Congress according to the United States Constitution under the agreement proposed by Connecticut delegate Roger Sherman, Congress would be a “bicameral” or two-chambered body. -
the Constitution became the official framework of the government of the United States of America, New Hampshire became the ninth of 13 states to ratify it. Until the new Constitution was ratified the country was governed by the Articles of Confederation. Hamilton and James Madison led the lobbying efforts for votes in favor of ratifying the Constitution.
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American statesmen Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and John Jay negotiated the peace treaty with representatives of King George III of Great Britain. In the Treaty of Paris, the British Crown formally recognized American independence and ceded most of its territory east of the Mississippi River to the United States, doubling the size of the new nation and paving the way for westward expansion. The British, for instance, refused to relinquish several of its forts in the former Northwest Territory. -