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The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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John Adams was a leader of the American Revolution, and served as the second U.S. president from 1797 to 1801.
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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard.
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the first battle of the American Revolutionary War and the Battle of Concord.
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The Continental Congress selected George Washington as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.
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The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House.
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England’s longest-ruling monarch before Queen Victoria, King George III ascended the British throne in 1760.
