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The discovery of the New World promoted a flurry of new questions about society, government, art, religion, and nature.learn more
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The french and indian War resulted from ongoing frontier tensions in north america as both french and british imperial officials and colonists sought to extend each country’s sphere of influence in frontier regions
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The sons of liberty were a grassroots group of instigators and provocateurs in colonial america who used an extreme form of civil disobedience ,threats, and in some cases actual violence to intimidate loyalists and outrage the british government -
The british parliament passed the stamp act to help pay for british troops stationed in the colonies during the seven years war.
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The Boston massacre was a street fight that occurred on march 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing, dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
The Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia in the summer of 1775, shortly after the war with the British had begun. It was preceded by the First Continental Congress in the fall of 1774. -
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.learn more
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he Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5th, 1775 to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. The Petition emphasized their loyalty to the British crown and emphasized their rights as British citizens.[learn more]( -
The siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown, or the German battle , ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of the American Continental Army troops led by General George. -
Treaty of paris was signed by u.s and british representatives on september 3 1783, ending the War of the american revolution. -
was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 between delegates of the states with large and small populations that defined the structure of Congress and the number of representatives each state would have in Congress according. -
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 journey to ratification, however, was a long and arduous process. -
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.
