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Also known as the seven year war fought between Britain and France it ended with the treaty of Paris -
Used to promote the self sufficiency of the British empire by restricting trade -
First direct tax on American colonies, used to raise money for Britain. Taxed newspapers, playing cards, and legal documents. -
Confrontation in Boston in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of hundreds of people who were verbally harassing them -
Granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without going to England -
A political protest “taxation without representation” dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor -
A series of laws aimed to punish the colonists for the act taken in the tea party protest -
A meeting between the delegates of the colonies and met to react and discuss the intolerable acts -
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War the battles were fought in the towns. It broke out because a shot was accidentally fired and the British were forced to attack -
A meeting that took place inside the independence hall a month after Lexington and concord -
The continental congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. It was engrossed and parched on august 2 when they began signing it -
The Americans defeated the British army after the British had plans to invade New England from Canada -
The third of eight winter encampments for the continental army commanded by general George Washington -
The French and the Americans joined to capture the British before they could keep their men in the town of Chesapeake waiting for supplies and reinforcements -
The first words state “we the people” means that the government of the United States exists to serve its citizens -
The constitution was adopted after New Hampshire Became the ninth state to put it into order the confederation congress put it into act and began operating under the constitution