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The English Navigation Acts were a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England and its colonies
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In 1756, the war erupted into the world-wide conflict known as the Seven Years' war.
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The Stamp Act of 1765 was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament on the colonies of British America.The act required that printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.
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On December 16, 1773, 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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The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting on May 10, 1775
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France entered the American Revolutionary War in 1778,
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The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 founding states that legally established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution
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place from May 14 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America
