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a meeting in the Federal Hall in New York City consisting of delegates from 9 of the 13 colonies that discussed and acted upon the recently passed Stamp Act.
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intended to raise revenue, tighten customs enforcement, and assert imperial authority in America
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British troops opened fire on an angry mob of citizens and five were killed. This event sparked the rebellion in some of the British American colonies.
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After officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships dressed as indians and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.
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A convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. they considered options, including an economic boycott of British trade, publish a list of rights and grievances, and petition King George.
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A convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that managed the colonial war effort, and moved slowly towards independence.
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Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states and no longer apart of the British Empire.
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First constitution of the United States of America and legally established the union of the states.
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formally ended the American Revolutionary war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and The Thirteen Colonies in North America.
