Origins of the Government of the United States

  • Albany Plan of Union

  • Sons of Liberty

    An organization of Patriots who fought British Occupation in the Thirteen Colonies
  • The Boston Tea Party

    A group of patriots from the Sons of Liberty, lead by Founding Father Samuel Adams, boarded three East India Company and dumped entire shipments of tea into the Boston Harbor. It brought the Colonies one srep closer to war with the Crown.
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    American Rvolutionary War

    The war the thirteen colonies fought to gain independence from Great Britain
  • Constitutional Convention

    In the early days of the United States, the colonies got together to draft the US Constitution
  • Articles of Confederation

  • Fedralist Papers

    A collection of 85 articles and essays writen by Alexander Hamilton , James Madison and John Jay