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The French and Indian war was a Theater of the Seven Years' War. Which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French. Each side was being supported by various Native American tribes. -
The Sons of Liberty was a loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization. That was active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British Government. -
What the stamp act caused is that it required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. It was a direct tax impose by the British Government without the approval of the colonial legislatures. It was payable in hard-to-obtain British sterling, rather than colonial currency. -
The Townshend act of 1767 was to help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies. The parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes and glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston, where Nine British Soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred people. The people was harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. -
The Boston Tea Party was an American Political and mercantile protest. It was by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. -
The Coercive Acts also know as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament. It was the punishment for the colony of Massachusetts Bay that caused the Boston Tea Party. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, were some of the leading military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge. -
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought during the Siege of Boston in the first stage of the American Revolutionary War. The battles is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which was peripherally involved. -
The Battle of Trenton was a small but pivotal American Revolutionary War battle in the morning in Trenton, New Jersey. After crossing the Delaware River in a treatorous storm, General Washington's army defeated a garrison of Hessian Mercenaries. -
The Battle of Camden, also known as the Battle of Camden Court House. This battle was a major victory for the British in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War. -
The Battle of Yorktown, also knows as the Siege of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown, or the German Battle because of the presence of Germans in all three armies. The battle that took place was in Yorktown, Virginia. -
The Treaty of Paris is what ended the Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States, recognized American Independence and established borders for the new nation. The Treaty of Paris also ended the French and Indian War/ seven Years' War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respected allies. In the terms of the treaty France gave up all its territories in mainland North America effectively ending any foreign Military threat to the British colonies there. -
Written in 1787, ratified in 1788, and in operation since 1789, the United States Constitution is the world's longest surviving written charter of government. Its first three words- " We The People"- affirm that the government of the United States exists to serve the citizens. -
A joint House and Senate Conference Committee settled remaining disagreements in September. On October 2, 1789, President Washington sent copies of the 12 amendments adopted by to the states. By December 15, 1791, three- fourths of the states had ratified 10 of these of these, now known as the " Bill of Rights"