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The Boston Massacre
-The location of the incident was in front of the Customs House on King Street.
-A redcoat called Private Montgomery was hit in the face by a stick and fired into the crowd killing a black man called Crispus Attucks.
-The riot began when about 50 citizens attacked a British sentinel.
-A town meeting was called demanding the removal of the British and the trial of Captain Preston and his men for murder. -
The Boston Tea Party
-The Boston Tea Party was organized and carried out by a group of Patriots led by Samuel Adams known as the Sons of Liberty.
-340 chests of British East India Company tea, weighing over 92,000 pounds onboard the Beaver, Dartmouth, and Eleanor were smashed open with axes and dumped into Boston Harbor.
-The Boston Tea Party was a protest by colonists, members of the the Sons of Liberty, against the Tea Tax that had been imposed by the British government. -
American Revolutionary War
-The American Revolution was a political battle that took place between 1765 and 1783 where colonists from the Thirteen Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy.
-George Washington was the Commander-in-Chief of the army played a critical role in most of the battles of the war.
-A total of 25,000 Americans died during the Revolutionary war.
-British soldiers and American patriots started the war with battles at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. -
The Declaration of Independence
-The document was signed by 56 delegates to the Continental Congress.
-The document stated the reasons the 13 American colonies wanted to be free of Great Britain's government.
-The first public reading of the signed Declaration of Independence took place on July 8, 1776, in Philadelphia.
-Benjamin Franklin was 70 years old and the oldest to sign the Declaration of Independence.
-Robert R. Livingston was a member of the Committee of Five, but did not sign the final copy. -
The Treaty of Paris
-The Treaty of Paris was the official peace treaty between the United States and Britain that ended the American Revolutionary War.
-The treaty was negotiated in the city of Paris, France.
-There were three important Americans in France to negotiate the treaty for the United States: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay.
-The first point, and most important to the Americans, was that Britain recognize the Thirteen Colonies to be free and independent states. -
Constitution of the US
-The U.S. Constitution has 4,400 words. It is the oldest and shortest written Constitution of any major government in the world.
-Since 1952, The Constitution has been on display in the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. As of right now all four pages are displayed behind protective glass framed with titanium.
-Constitution Day is celebrated on September 17, the anniversary of the day the framers signed the document.. -
The Bill of Rights
-The amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, were designed to protect the basic rights of United States citizens.
-Influenced by the English Bill of Rights of 1689, the Bill of Rights was also drawn from Virginia’s Declaration of Rights drafted by George Mason in the late 1700's
-In the ratification process that followed, Mason and other critics agreed to approve the Constitution in exchange for the assurance that amendments would immediately be adopted. -
Louisana Purchase
- Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the U.S. purchased about 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France, doubling the size of the young republic
- In 1801,Spain signed a secret treaty with France to return Louisiana Territory to France. -France was slow in taking control of Louisiana, but in 1802 Spanish authorities, apparently acting under French orders, revoked a United States Spanish treaty that granted Americans the right to store goods in New Orleans.
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Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, William Clark led the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the unexplored American to the Pacific Northwest in 180/06. -Lewis served as the field scientist, chronicling botanical, zoological, meteorological, geographic and ethnographic info.
- Lewis also tried publishing the journals that he and Clark wrote during their great adventure.
- Lewis died on October 12,1809, at somewhere near Nashville, Tennessee. He had been on his way to D.C.
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Lincon Ass.
- He found the president slumped in his chair, paralyzed and struggling to breathe. -Lincoln and his son,Willie, who died in the White House of typhoid fever in 1862, were interred on May 4, 1865, at Oak Ridge Cemetery, near Springfield. -Vice President Andrew Johnson, members of Lincolns cabinet and several of the president’s closest friends stood vigil by Lincoln’s bedside until he was officially pronounced dead at 7:22 a.m.
