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Magna Carta
The Magna Carta is a charter agreed by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years’ War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar act was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764 -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act is an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Quartering Act
Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. -
Formation of Sons of Liberty
In Boston in early summer of 1765 a group of shopkeepers and artisans who called themselves The Loyal Nine, began preparing for agitation against the Stamp Act. -
The Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies-December 16, 1773 -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. People threw bags of tea overboard. -
Coercive Acts
The Coercive Acts are names used to describe a series of laws relating to Britain's colonies in North America, and passed by the British Parliament in 1774 -
The second Continental Congress
was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
1st Continental Congress
was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Shots heard from around the world
April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops set off from Boston toward Concord, Massachusetts, in order to seize weapons and ammunition stockpiled there by American colonists.The British reached Lexington, where approximately 70 minutemen had gathered on the village green. Someone suddenly fired a shot—it’s uncertain which side—and a melee ensued. -
Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was a battle fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. -
Publication of Common Sense
written by Thomas Paine, setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence January 9, 1776 -
Independence Day
Indenpence Day is a day celebrating the anniversary of national independence from Britain. People and cities have fireworks and cookouts celebrating our freedom. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.September 19, 1777 -
Valley Forge
Valley Forge was the military camp in southeastern Pennsylvania, approximately 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia, where the American Continental Army spent the winter of 1777–1778 during the American Revolutionary War. -
Articles of Confederation
the original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789. -
Shay's Rebellion
is the name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt. -
The Great Compromise
one of the most important compromises reached during the drafting of the United States Constitution in 1787, the delegates were trying to figure out how each state would be represented in Congress. -
The Constitution
the supreme law of the land- It was signed on September 17, 1787
Proclamation of 1763: was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War -
Constitutional Convention
took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America -
Federalist Papers
a series of eighty-five essays urging the citizens of New York to ratify the new United States Constitution. Written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, the essays originally appeared anonymously in New York newspapers in 1787 and 1788 under the pen name "Publius." -
Whiskey Rebellion
was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington.
