Birth of the Americca Republic

By Raquel Ealum
  • Sugar Act
    1764 BCE

    Sugar Act

    Sugar and coffe was taxed
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    All paper was taxed
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    There was taxes on the tea , th colonist threw the tea over the ship
  • The Battle of Lexington & Concord

    The Battle of Lexington & Concord

    This war became known as the American Revolution
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    2nd Contnetal cngress makes thedeclarition of independece
  • Battle of Saratoga

    Battle of Saratoga

    British gained their objective in first batte , they lost the secound engagment
  • British surrender at Yorktown , Virgina

    British surrender at Yorktown , Virgina

    When the British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his troops
  • Constitution Convention

    Constitution Convention

    Americans reconized that Articles of Confederation , the fundation document for the new United States adopted 1777 had to be substantially modified
  • Ratification of the US Constitution

    Ratification of the US Constitution

    was ambigous in applicable procedure