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Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by American Indian allies. -
Stamp Act of 1765
History.com The Stamp Act imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies and came at a time when the British Empire was in debt from spending all of their money on The Seven Years' War. -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was a secret revolutionary organization that was founded by Samuel Adams in the Thirteen American Colonies to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. It played a major role in most colonies in battling the Stamp Act in 1765. -
Townshend Act of 1767
The Townshend Acts or Towshend Duties, refers to a series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 relating to the British colonies in America. They are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer who proposed the program. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that started out as a small street brawl, but quickly escalated between the British soldiers and American soldiers and was chaotic and turned into bloody slaughter. -
Boston Tea Party
History.com The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that was started by American colonists who were angry at the British for imposing taxes on them, so they dumped crates of their tea into the harbor. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge. -
Declaration of Independence Adopted
The Continental Congress issued the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, but was adopted on August 2, 1776.The 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain and this summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence. -
Battle of Yorktown
ushistory.org The French navy and the Continental Army conceived a daring plan to entrap Cornwallis in Yorktown. Their plan worked and Cornwallis surrendered Yorktown, and three weeks later the war was over. -
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Treaty of Paris Signed
The Treaty of Paris officially ended the American Revolutionary War and was signed by U.S. and British Representatives. -
Great Compromise
The Connecticut Compromise was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. -
Constitution is Ratified
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, and this took a long time.
