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The Boston Tea Party was in protest of the British Parliament Tea act. Witch was a bill designed to save the delay East India company by lowering the tea tax. -
The British marched into Lexington and Concord intending to suppress the possibility of riot by seizing weapons from the colonists. Instead, their actions had sparked the first battle of the Revolutionary War. -
The Declaration of Independence was signed to explain the colonists right to revolution. their goals were to rally the troops, win the foreign allies, and to announce the creation of a new country. -
The cause if the The Winter at Valley Forge was the lack of organization, food and money shortages troubled the Continental Army throughout the first half of the seven-year-long revolution. -
The stemming from wartime urgency, its progress was slowed by fears of central authority and extensive land claims by states. -
Cornwallis was in Yorktown, because he had been ordered by Clinton during the summer to provide a protected harbor for the British fleet in the lower Chesapeake Bay. -
The defects in the post-revolutionary war articles of alliances were apparent, such as the lack of central authority over foreign and domestic commerce. -
When the new Constitution was ratified, the Electoral College unanimously elected Washington President. -
blocked by French meddling in U.S. politics, Washington warned the nation to avoid lasting alliances with foreign nations and to rely instead on temporary alliances for emergencies. -
The Death of George Washington was in the evening, at Mount Vernon. George passed away due to a infection in his throat. George was also buried four days later in the family vault at Mount Vernon. -
Election day is the day we vote for who we think should be are leader for the next four years. -
Thomas Jefferson withheld from William Marbury a judgeship task that had been formalized in the last days of the preceding John Adams administration but not delivered before Jefferson's.