American revoulution

By kaeyonip123
  • sugar act

    sugar act

    parliament passed this act that taxed sugar and coffee
  • stamp act

    stamp act

  • boston massacare

    boston massacare

    british soldiers opened fire on a crowd that was pelting them snowballs and rocks
  • boston tea party

    boston tea party

    colonist protested to put tax on tea
  • the battle of lexington

    the battle of lexington

    a war known as the american revoultion
  • declaration of independence

    declaration of independence

    government duty to protect the peoples natural rights
    people have the right to alter or abolish unjust governments
    popular soverightny states that all government power comes from the people
  • battle of saratoga

    battle of saratoga

  • british surrender at yorktown,virginia

    british surrender at yorktown,virginia

  • constitutional convention

    constitutional convention

  • ratification of the us constition

    ratification of the us constition

    the constitution creates a represenative government that limits governments powers comig from lockes belief . there was also a seperartion of powers among the judicial legislative and executive branches a concept borrowed from montesquieu. they saw the government in terms of a social contract in which . "we the people of the united"
    entered