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Mayflower Compact
The pilgrims sign the Mayflower compact, which is the first written framework of government established in what is now the United States. -
Intercolonial cooperation
William Penn offered an elaborate plan for intercolonial cooperation largely in trade defence and criminal matters. -
Colonies Unite
Franklin proposed the creation of an annual congress of representatives from each of the 13 colonies. The body would have the power to raise military and naval forces, make war and peace with the native americans. -
The Stamp Act
The New tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. The money collected by the stamp Act was to be used to hwlp pay costs of defending and protecting the American frontier. -
Boston Massacre
British troops in Boston fired on a jeering crowd killing five in what came to be known as the Boston Massacre. -
Committees of Correspondence
Organized resistance was carried on through committees of correspondence, political leader Samuael Adams in Boston -
The Tea Act
Tea was a favorite no alcoholic beverage, since it was still being taxed, people began to buy less expensive tea from another country. Native Americans boarded ships and dumped tea into the Boston Harbor. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of men disguised as Native Americans, boarded three tea ships in the Boston Harbor. they broke open the chest and dumped the ship's cargo into the sea to protest British control of the tea trade -
First Continental Congress
Parliament passed another set of laws to punish the colonists for the troubles in Boston and elsewhere. -
Second Continental Congress
They met in Philadelphia on May 10, by then the Revolution had begun. The "shot heard around the world" had been fired and the battles of Lexington and Concord had been fought 3 weeks earlier.
