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The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. It started from the specific issue of whether the Ohio River valley was a part of the British Empire.
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The Sons of Liberty were a grassroots group of instigators and provocateurs in colonial America who used an extreme form of civil disobedience—threats, and in some cases actual violence—to intimidate loyalists and outrage the British government. -
Click here for moreThe Townshend Act was a series of acts that passed from the British Parliament. They placed new taxes and took some freedom away from the colonists. The acts taxed goods and imported them to the American colonies.
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The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists. Its also known as The Bloody Massacre and Paul Revere came up with that for it. -
Click for moreThe Boston Tea Party was a protest that happened at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, were frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation. They dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor . -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. -
The Articles of Confederation was an agreement among the 13 original states. It served as the document for how the national government functions. It was later ratified in March 1, 1781, which was then replaced in 1789 by the US Constitution -
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British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and his army surrendered to General George Washington’s American force and its French allies at the Battle of Yorktown and the conclusion was it was the last major battle of the American Revolution. -
The fifty-five delegates who met in Philadelphia would not only reject the Articles of Confederation, but they produced the first written constitution for any nation in the history of the world.
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The Great Compromise created two legislative bodies in Congress. The upper house would have equal representation from each state, while the lower house would have proportional representation based on a state's population. -
The House passed a joint resolution containing 17 amendments based on Madison's proposal. On October 2, 1789, President Washington sent copies of the 12 amendments adopted by Congress to the states.
