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The French and Indian War was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which was like the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French -
The Sons of Liberty was a loosely organized sometimes it was violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government but it ended in 1766 -
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 in America -
The Townshend was to help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies -
March 5 1770 British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonia, killing five wounding another six and angering an entire colony -
The Boston Tea Party was an American political on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts -
The First Continental Congress convened in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia. Delegates from twelve of Britain's thirteen American colonies met to discuss America's future under growing British aggression -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first major military campaigns of the American Revolutionary War, resulting in an American victory -
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the siege of boston in the first stage of the american revolutionary war. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown Massachusetts -
Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5, 1775, to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
The Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Continental Congress The document served as the United States' first constitution. It was in force from March 1, 1781, until 1789 when the present-day Constitution went into effect. -
The siege of Yorktown which is also known as the Battle of Yorktown and the surrender at Yorktown, began September 28, 1781, and ended on October 19, 1781, at 10:30 am in Yorktown Virginia. -
The Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783, ending the War of the American Revolution -
The Connecticut Compromise was an agreement during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that defined the legislative structure and representation each state would have under the United States Constitution. -
The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.