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French and Indian War ends
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper from London. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally. -
Tea Act
The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England, and to commission agents who would have the sole right to sell tea in the colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
Political Protest that occurred in the Boston Harbor that showed the British that the colonists wouldn’t pay taxes without representation -
Intolerable Acts
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies. conducted a spirited discussion about how the colonies could collectively respond to the British government's coercive actions, and they worked to make a common cause. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a late-18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolutionary War. -
Declaration of Independence adopted
The most well-known printed version of the United States' Declaration of Independence displays the signatures of John Hancock and other founding fathers at the bottom -
Battle of Saratoga
Climax of the American Revolutionary War, giving the upright to the Americans. -
Winter at Valley Forge
The camp had unsanitary conditions, shortages of food and blankets contributed to the disease and exhaustion which continually plagued the camp. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown proved to be the decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The British surrender forecast the end of British rule in the colonies -
U.S. Constitution written
The U.S. 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 its citizens. -
U.S. Constitution adopted
The Constitution was written during the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by 55 delegates to a Constitutional Convention that was called ostensibly to amend the Articles of Confederation, the country's first written constitution. It was first ratified by Delaware.