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French-Indian War
The French and Indian War was a conflict between France and Great Britain that took place in North America from 1754 to 1763 -
Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was a tax passed by the British Parliament in 1765 that required colonists to pay a tax on paper goods -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were intended to raise revenue for the British government to pay for governing the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
Nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. -
Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
(aka “The Shot Heard Around the World”)the first shot fired during the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. This event marked the beginning of the American Revolution. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was the de facto national government of the United States during the Revolutionary War. -
Olive Branch Petition
a document sent to King George III in 1775 by the Second Continental Congress. -
Common Sense
Common sense is "knowledge, judgement, and taste which is more or less universal and which is held more or less without reflection or argument". -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America in the engrossed version and original printing, is the founding document of the United States. -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 states of the United States, formerly the Thirteen Colonies, that served as the nation's first frame of government. -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes on both individuals and their trades. -
Constitutional Convention (aka Philadelphia Convention)
met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.