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The Stamp Act 1765, also known as the Duties in American Colonies Act 1765, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies. -
The Sons of Liberty was a loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. -
To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies. -
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord was the first major military campaign of the American Revolutionary War, resulting in an American victory and outpouring of militia support for the anti-British cause. -
The 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence. -
The siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown and the surrender at Yorktown, began September 28, 1781, and ended on October 19, 1781, at exactly 10:30 am in Yorktown, Virginia.
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It ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation. -
The Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman Compromise) was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787. -
A convention of delegates from all the states except Rhode Island met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in May of 1787.
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President Washington sent copies of the 12 amendments adopted by Congress to the states. -
It determined that three out of every five slaves were counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation.
