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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen British colonies in North America
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The French and Indian War was the North American portion of the lager Seven Years War fought between Great Britain and France along with their colonial and Native American allies.
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The Stamp Act of 1765 was a British law that imposed a direct tax on the American colonists by requiring them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used
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The Sons of Liberty were a secret underground resistance group in colonial America, formed to protest and resist British policies, particularly unfair taxation.
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The Boston Massacre is where Seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest in 1773 where American colonists frustrated with British taxation and a tea monopoly, dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor
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The Battle of Bunker Hill was a costly British victory against American colonists on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston, proving colonial forces were a serious threat
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The Declaration of Independence was a formal announcement that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule -
The Battle of Trenton was a pivotal American victory during the Revolutionary War, fought on December 26,1776. General George Washington led the Continental Army in a surprise attack against Hessian mercenaries, crossing Delaware River on Christmas night
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The Battle of Camden also known as the Battle of Camden Court House was a major victory for the British in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War
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The First constitution of the United States, establishing a weak central government and granting most powers to the individual states
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The Battle of Yorktown, was a decisive victory for the American and French forces against the British. This surrender at Yorktown effectively ended major fighting in the American Revolutionary War and paved the way for American independence
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The Treaty of Paris refers to several historical peace treaties signed in Paris, but most notably the one signed in 1783, which officially ended the American Revolutionary War.
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The Great Compromise also known as the Connecticut Compromise was a pivotal agreement during 1787 Constitutional Convention that resolved the issue of reorientation in the US congress
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The Enlightenment was a transformative intellectual and cultural movement of the 18th century that that emphasized reason individualism, and human progress