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The Enlightenment was the root of many of the American Revolution. It was a movement that focused mostly on freedom of speech, equality, freedom of press, and religious tolerance.
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Also known as the "Seven Years War" the New World conflict marked another chapter in the long imperial struggle between Britain and France.
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The Stamp Act was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British Parliament.
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The Sons of Liberty on the 14th of August 1765 a Day which ought to be forever remembered in America animated with a zeal for their country then upon the brink of destruction and resolved at once to save her From a 1765 Boston Gazette article written by Samuel Adams referring to the anti-Stamp Act activists for the first time in print as Sons of Liberty -
The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767 that taxed goods imported of the American colonies. -
The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred in March 1770 on King Street in Boston. -
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred in December of 1775, at Griffins Wharf in Boston Massachusetts. -
Four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament in retaliation for acts of colonial defiance. -
American victory The British marched into Lexington and Concord intending to suppress the possibility of rebellion by seizing weapons from the colonists. Instead their actions sparked the first battle of the Revolutionary War. The colonists intricate alarm system summoned local militia companies enabling them to successfully counter the British threat. -
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.
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The British surrender forecast the end of British rule in the colonies and the birth of a new nation- The United States of America. -
The Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S. and British Representatives ending the war of the American Revolution. -
The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. The point of the event was to decide how America was going to be governed. -
The Great Compromise created two legislative bodies in Congress According to the Great Compromise there would be two national legislatures in a bicameral Congress. Members of the House of Representatives would be allocated according to each state's population and elected by the people. -
The constitution became the official framework of the government of the United States of America when New Hampshire became the ninth of 13 states to ratify it. -
The House passed a joint resolution containing 17 amendments based on Madison's proposal. On October 2 1789 President Washington sent copies of the 12 amendments adopted by Congress to the states. By December 15 1791 three-fourths of the states had ratified 10 of these now known as the Bill of Rights.