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On March 22nd 1765 King George III passed the stamp act which It imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the American colonies. This angered the colonies because a major sum of the colonists were extremely poor. -
On March 5th 1770 British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally. -
On December 16th 1773 the patriot group known as the Sons of Liberty led by Samuel Adams protested British rule by disguising as native Americans and going onto a British ship and dumping all of the tea into the Boston harbor. This angered the British. -
On March 31st of 1774 the British responded to the Boston Tea Party by passing several bills to punish the colonies. -
On August 2nd 1776 the Declaration of Independence was signed by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison, and John Hancock. It was a Declaration of Independence by the thirteen United States of America. -
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 and the birth of The United States of America.
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On September 3 1783 The Treaty if Paris was signed between the American colonies and Great Britain, ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation. -
On September 17 1787 the Constitutional Convention approved the U.S constitution and it was later ratified on July 2nd 1788.