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A treaty was signed in Paris that ended the French and Indian War that took place in North America.
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Geoge III did not want to have to defend the colonies so he prohobited them from setteling west of the Appalchain mountains, which got them a gaurentee of saftey from the Native Americans..
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The sugar act required colonial merchants to pay taxes on sugar and molasses that was imported. It also included some other good such aw wines and coffee.
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The stampt act required American colonists to pay taxes on all printed paper. Many people were offended by the Stamp Act, because the purpos of it was to raise money for troops.
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The Quartering Act required that colonies provided housing, food, and drink to British troops.
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Virginia refused to follow the Stamp Act, this was a beginning for rebellion against these laws in America.
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Representative from the different colonies met up and decided that the stamp act was unconstitutional because they had not given their consent on these taxes.
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More taxes were put on tea, glass, lead, paper, and paint in order to help pay for the administration of the colonies. Colonies were not in favor of this 'taxation without representation'.
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The recent laws that had been passed had caused a lot of political unrest in America, so British troops were sent in to Boston to sort things out.
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British troops killed five colonists, this led to outrage, and increased tensions between Americans and the British.
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The unfavored townshend revenue act was finally repealed on this date.
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Parliament exempted it's tea from import taxes by allowing tea to be sold directly to the colonies. Americans were angered by this because it worked as an inderect way to lower taxes for Britain.
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Americans who were angered by the Tea Acts dressed up as Indians and dumped huge ammounts of tea into the Boston harbour.
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A series of laws were passed after the Boston Tea Party. These acts were meant to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party, and this angered Americans. Many colonists protested by boycotting British products.
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Delegates from the colonies meet to discuss their opposition to the Intolerable Acts.
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American colonies have been pushed to the point where they want to be independant from Britain, and the Revolutionary War begins.
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The first major battles of the Revolutionary War took place. These battles where between British Soldiers and American Minute Men. This is when the famous warning of Paul Revere is from.
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Congress presents a petition asking for recognition of American rights, as well as the end of the Intolerable acts for a cease fire. This proposal was rejected.
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France recognized the US as independant from Britain, which was a large step forward for Americans.
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The treaty of paris was signed which gave american it's freedom, and ended the revolutionary war.
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The last british troops left the United states officially on this date.
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Shay's Rebellion was a series of protests by American farmers. These farmers were protesting against tax collection and judgments that were given for debt.
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Delegates from the different states gathered to discuss the constituntion. The meeting led to much conflict and created the Great Compromise which set the government up for a system with the House of Representativees, and the Senate.
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38 of the 55 delegates signed the Constitution on this day. After this all that was left was to get the constitotion ratifies by at least 9 or the 13 states.
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On this date, New Hampshire was the ninth state to sign and ratify the consitution, allowing it to go into effect. Other states followed shortly afterwards.
