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Document created by the Stamp Act Congress, declaring that taxes imposed on British colonist without their formal consent were unconstitutional.
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A direct action by colonist in Boston a town in the British colony of Massachusetts against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies.
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A convention of delegates from twelve british north American colonies that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philedelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.
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the Americans were angry, they did not like to pay high taxes to the king of England.. they wanted to be free from England. The Americans started a war with England and it was called the Revolutionary War.
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A more radical and distinguished group than the 1st continental congress. This group becomes the Defacto Governement of the United States during the war untill the articles of conferetation are adopted in 1781.
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it was written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the 2nd continental congress states the reason the british colonies of North America sought independence.
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The represenativesof the 13th states agreed to create a confederacy called the United States of American, each state maintanied its own sovereighty and all rights to govern.
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The Revolutionary war ended withthe british general cornwallis surrendering to patriots and a french navy that had him surrounded at Yorktown, he signed the Declaration giving us independence.
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This included 55 delegates who drafted included many of the founding fathers of the nation.
