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learn more stamp act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonist by the British parliament. which imposed tax on all newspapers from when the British empire was in debt from the seven year wars and the north Americans was a revenue source.
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The Boston Massacre occurred when British soldiers in Boston opening fire on a group of American colonists killing up to 5 people.
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The Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
click here the Boston tea party was a political riot at Griffins wharf in Boston Massachusetts, mad and angry American colonist, imposing taxation and dumped 342 chests of tea from east India into the harbor as they fight for there independence.
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The battle of Lexington & Concord kicked of the American revolutionary war, tension has been built over the residence of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities In Massachusetts. hundreds of British troops started marching from Boston to nearby concord to seize an army ache; but many more battles happened since 1783 and the colonist won there independence -
learn more it was just months after shots had been fired in Lexington and Concorde in Massachusetts and congress was preparing for war and George Washington as a commander chief. this also drafted the olive branch petition and the king refuses and declares revolt in American colonist. more went on like postponed elections and drafts.
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learn more The olives branch petition was adopted by congress to be sent to the king as a last to prevent form war from being declared. The petition expressed there loyalty to the British crown and emphasized there rights as British citizens .also the union between our mother country and the 13 colonies.
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By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence. -
click here the articles created a loose confederation of sovereign states and a weak central government, also had an constitutional convention.
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Siege of Yorktown, joint Franco- American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. Click here
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The Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S and British Representatives ending the War of the American Revolution. The agreement recognized U.S independence and granted the U.S significant western territory. Click here -
The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed.Click here
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Three- fifths compromise, compromise agreement between delegates from Northern and Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention that three - fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives -
learn more the framers of the U.S constitution, meeting at independence hall, had reached an agreement, the great compromise or also known as Connecticut compromise. where they declared houses of representative and each would be assigned a number of seats and each would have the same amount of seats.
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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 -
click here the amendments James Madison proposed to win support in both houses of congress and states. many people apposed the the new government because of George mason who created the pamphlet, but helped and signed the bills of rights for many reasons.
