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Under the leadership of John Brown, Rhode Island colonists burned down British revenue ship The Gaspee.
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This was a document giving English royal recognition to the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, providing a foundation for the government, and outlining broad freedoms for the inhabitants of that colony.
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John Eldred of Jamestown, RI took an old British cannon and fired it at a British warship terrorising Narragansett Bay. The cannonball hit and the warship thought that it was a militia firing. (A militia is a small army made up of citizens)
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His picture shown below has all of the states in a cut snake saying ¨Join or Die¨. Do you know what it means?
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Great Britain says to colonists that they cannot go over the Ohio River Valley, which is west of the Appilachian Mountains.
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This act required colonists to pay for an official stamp or seal, when they bought paper items.
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Orginised by New England colonists to enforce colonial measures in opposition to Parliamentary laws placed on the colonists by the British. Tried to force Parliament to repeal measures passed to govern colonies.
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British troops fired on a mob in the streets of Boston. The mob was protesting the presence of British troops in the city. The troops had been in the city since 1768. Five Bostonians were killed.
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Colonists disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians and went to Boston Harbor, boarded a ship, and then dumped tea crates into the ocean. Later they were caught.
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The Intolerable Acts were created to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. These acts included the closing of Boston Harbor, Mass. Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, Quartering Act, and Quebec Act.
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First Continental Congress Delegates from all colonies except Georgia met to discuss problems with Britain and to promote independence.
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Convened in May 1775, the Congress opposed the drastic move toward complete independence from Britain. In an effort to reach a reconciliation, the Congress offered peace under the conditions that there be a cease-fire in Boston, that the Coercive Acts be repealed, and that negotiations begin immediately. King George III rejected the petition.
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Three days later the ship Katy, under the command of Captain Whipple, Commodore of the Rhode Island Navy, did capture the British warship Diana. The Katy later became the first US warship.
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British troops and dozens of hessians ready to kill marched into town in Jamestown and burnt every home but two. Most people were killed. A hessian is like a mercenary.
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Document stating that the thirteen colonies were free from Great Britain and the King
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Continental Army and militia forces under the command of General John Sullivan were withdrawing to the northern part of Aquidneck Island after abandoning their siege of Newport, Rhode Island, when the British forces in Newport sortied, supported by recently arrived Royal Navy ships, and attacked the retreating Americans. The battle ended inconclusively, but the Continental forces afterward withdrew to the mainland, leaving Aquidneck Island in British hands.
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This very important document outlined the terms of the British surrender. This ended the American Revolution.
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When a bill of rights was proposed in Congress in 1789, North Carolina ratified the Constitution. Finally, Rhode Island, which had rejected the Constitution in March 1788 by popular referendum, called a ratifying convention in 1790 as specified by the Constitutional Convention.
