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The French and Indian War was a long Seven-Year War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes. -
The Navigation Acts was an act of Parliament that intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England and lowering dependence on foreign imported goods. -
The act required the colonists to pay taxes, represented by a stamp, on many forms of papers, documents, and playing cards, and more. -
The Quartering Act stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and would have to open their houses publicly. -
the Townshend act was to help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and causing a rumble before the revolution war. -
The Boston Tea Party was where more than 100 men gathered together and dumped 342 cheats of tea into the ocean. -
The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
the Second Continental Congress was the late 18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution which established American independence from the British Empire. -
In this first battle of the American Revolution, Massachusetts colonists defied British authority, outnumbered and outfought the Redcoats, and went abroad on a lengthy war to earn their independence rights -
the Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5, 1775, to be delivered to the King as a last try to prevent formal war from being declared.
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Common Sense made a clear case for independence and directly attacked the political, economic, and ideological obstacles to achieving it. -
the Declaration of Independence was built on the American settlers' . for unity, freedom, and protection of individual rights. The Declaration's clarion call to self-government and freedom began the nation. -
The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation. This document served as the United States' first constitution. -
Shays's Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester for 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. -
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.