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The American Indians were fighting to maintain control of their land and their cultural future. The French claimed the Upper Ohio River Valley. They wanted to trade with the American Indians and control the area. The British also claimed the Upper Ohio River Valley. -
he act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
The Sons of Liberty were a grassroots group of instigators and provocateurs in colonial America who used an extreme form of civil disobedience -
Late in the afternoon of March 5, 1770, British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally. -
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
The document announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. It was the last of a series of steps that led the colonies to final separation from Great Britain. -
marked the start of the American War of Independence -
The American patriots were defeated at the Battle of Bunker Hill, but they proved they could hold their own against the superior British Army. -
Supported by the French army and navy, Washington's forces defeated Lord Charles Cornwallis' veteran army dug in at Yorktown, Virginia. -
Based on a1782 preliminary treaty, the agreement recognized U.S. independence and granted the U.S. significant western territory. -
It determined that three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation. -
promised the creation of a bicameral legislature composed of the House of Representatives and the Senate. -
Written in 1787, ratified in 1788, and in operation since 1789, the United States Constitution is the world's longest surviving written charter of government. -
It sets rules for due process of law and reserves all powers not delegated to the Federal Government to the people or the States.