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Regulated trade so that only English ships could carry goods to England and that only English ships could export goods from it’s colonies
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Britain wins, signs the Treaty of Paris
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Issued a tax for most printed materials in the colonies, like newspapers, playing cards, and legal documents, and required it be payed in British money
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Confrontation between English troops and a mob of locals that turned a riot where the soldiers opened fire, five colonists were killed and six were injured
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An act that would essentially be a bailout for the British East India Company by allowing them to sell surplus tea directly to the colonies instead of through the British Isles, which was also meant to fight underground tea smuggling
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A riot organized by the Sons of Liberty where colonists disposed of a shipment of tea by dumping it into the harbor, meant to protest the Tea Act
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A series of acts passed by Parliament meant to punish and suppress Massachusetts colonists after the Tea Party
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A meeting involving delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies organized to form a response to Britain and ultimately organize resistance against the crown
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The two first battles of the American Revolutionary War, both happened on the same day, began as a raid by British troops on a militia’s suspected weapons storage houses
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Convened as a governing force for the rebellion; wrote treaties, formed military strategy, and engaged diplomatically with nations assisting the struggle for independence
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The adoption of the Declaration of Independence, which was a document meant to assert the autonomy of the colonists rebelling against the crown
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A battle that happened under two separate dates which turned the tide of the war in favor of the Americans, British troops embarked from Canada expecting to meet up with soldiers stationed elsewhere, British forces ended up being encircled in Upstate New York
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A battle that happened under two separate dates which turned the tide of the war in favor of the Americans, British troops embarked from Canada expecting to meet up with soldiers stationed elsewhere, British forces ended up being encircled in Upstate New York
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Six-month encampment of American forces after a retreat from Philadelphia, supplies were lacking and many died from disease and malnutrition
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A siege of Yorktown, Virgina by combined American and French troops, ended decisively in favor of the Americans
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The creation of the constitution at the Philadelphia convention, written to strengthen the federal government after the revolutionary era
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The constitution officially went into affect in the newly created Unites States of America
