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Enlightenment
Enlightenment was happening around the 18th century marked by a rejection of traditional social, religious and political ideas and an emphasis on rationalism. -
French & Indian War
The French and Indian War was a theater of the seven Years' War which pitted the North American colonies. -
Sons of Liberty
Was a loosely organized, clandestine sometimes violent, political organization. -
Stamp Act of 1765
It required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, or various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
Townshend Act of 1767
It had taxed goods imported to the American colonies, but American colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw the Acts as an abuse of power. -
Boston Massacre
A group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were abusing them verbally... -
Boston Tea Party
A political protest that occurred on December 17,1773 .. at Griffin's Wharf in Boston Massachusetts. -
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
First Continental Congress meet
The First Continental congress the intoed states met in Philadelphia to consider its reaction to the British government. -
Second Continental Congress Meets
It was just a month after shots had been fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, and the congress was preparing for war. -
Battles of Lexington & Concord
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War and yet was marked the start of the American War of Independence. -
Olive Branch Sent to England
The Petition was emphasized their loyalty to the British crown and emphasized their rights as British citizens. -
Thomas Paine's Common Sense Published
Paine wrote "common sense" advocated independence for the American colonies from Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
God made all men equal and gave them the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness -
Articles of Confederation Created
It was in force from March 1st, 1781, until 1789 when the present-day constitution went into effect. -
Battle of Yorktown
Virginia marked the conclusion of the last major battle of the American Revolution and the start of a new nation’s independence. -
Treaty of Paris Signed
Between the American colonies and Great Britain, ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation. -
Great Compromise
Great compromise is provide a dual system of congressional representation. -
⅗ Compromise
Every enslaved American would be counted as three-fifths of a person for taxation and representation purposes -
Constitutional convention
The point of the event was to decide how America was going to be governed. Although the Convention had been officially called to revise the existing Articles of Confederation, many delegates had much bigger plans. -
Constitution is Ratified
The constitution became the official framework of the government of the United States of America when New Hampshire became the ninth of 13 states to ratify it. -
Bills of Rights Adopted
President Washington sent copies of the 12th amendments adopted by congress to the states.
