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The French and Indian War saw two European imperialists go head-to-head over territory.
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The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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The Boston massacre evolved from a street brawl between colonists and a British solider to a chaotic, bloody massacre.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British.
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In 1774, the intolerable acts were put in to place to punish colonists for the actions during the Boston Tea Party. These acts took away self-governance.
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William Penn arrived in Britain on August 14 and delivered the Olive Branch petition to the government. -
Common sense was a book that controversially challenged British authority in the colonies. Being published in January of 1776, it was the first time anyone had openly called for independence from Britain.
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The United States Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House.
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The Articles of Confederation served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain.
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It is considered the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War. The Continental Army, led by General George Washington, won a decisive victory against the British Army, led by General Lord Charles Cornwallis.
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The 3/5 compromise was a compromise in the early United States that said one black vote was worth 3/5 of a white man's vote.
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The constitutional convention took place during the summer of 1787, where American politicians got together to discuss the constitution.
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A constitutional convention is a gathering for the purpose of writing a new constitution or revising an existing constitution
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Numbers three through twelve were adopted by the states to become the United States
