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Boston tea party
In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor. -
Declaration of Independence is signed
the British Parliament passed a series of laws they referred to as the Coercive Acts. Acts were primarily designed to punish the colony of Massachusetts for defying British policies -
First Continental congress meets
The colonies presented there were united in a determination to show a combined authority to Great Britain, but their aims were not uniform at all. -
Revolutionary war begins
700 British troops, on a mission to capture Patriot leaders and seize a Patriot arsenal, march into Lexington to find 77 armed minutemen under Captain John Parker waiting for them on the town's common green. -
2nd continental congress meets
convened after the American Revolutionary War (1775-83) had already begun. In 1776, it took the momentous step of declaring America's independence from Britain. Five years later, the Congress ratified the first national constitution, the Articles of Confederation, under which the country would be governed until 1789, when it was replaced by the current U.S. Constitution. -
Articles of cofederation
The Articles created a loose confederation of sovereign states and a weak central government, leaving most of the power with the state governments -
Revolutionary war ends
A series of events put together was called the Revolutionary War and many important battles were fought within the war period. The American Revolutionary War took place in almost entire America with every state being affected. -
final draft of the constitution is signed
The Constitutional Convention convened in response to dissatisfaction with the Articles of Confederation and the need for a strong centralized government. -
constitutional congress opens
intended to revise the Articles of Confederation, the intention from the outset of many of its proponents, chief among them James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, was to create a new government rather than fix the existing one
