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New York
One of the original 13 colonies, New York played a crucial political and strategic role during the American Revolution. Between 1892 and 1954, millions of immigrants arrived in New York Harbor and passed through Ellis Island on their journey to becoming U.S citizens. -
The Stamp Act
Taxation measure designed to raise revenues for a standing British army in America, “no taxation without representation". -
The Tea Act
A bill designed to save the British East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a monopoly on the American tea trade. -
The Boston Tea Party
Located at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists were frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” They dumped 342 chests of British tea into the harbor. The event was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists -
First shot of American Revolutionary War
The British regulars encountered a group of American militiamen at Lexington, and the first shots of the American Revolution were fired. -
The Revolutionary War
American War of Independence, was a war between Great Britain and its Thirteen Colonies which declared independence as the United States of America. -
The Last Battle of the Revolutionary War
The 13 states set up a federal government under laws called the Articles of Confederation. -
Treaty of Paris
With signing the Treaty of Paris the US became a free and independent nation -
The Constitutional Convention Begins
, in Philadelphia. Fifty-five representatives attend and begin drafting the Constitution. The convention comes to a close as the representatives sign the Constitution. -
The Constitution
The Constitution becomes the law of the land after New Hampshire becomes the ninth and last state required to approve it.