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The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock
This event is the ship carrying pilgrims from England to Plymouth, and it's the first time that they built a permanent New England colony. Plymouth Rock is the place that Pilgrims set the food on Plymouth Rock. Moreover, when they got a fear from adventuring the new land they just camped the Plymouth Rock. -
Pennsylvania Becomes a Colony
When Pitt got a Pennsylvania from Charles Il he thought he found a nice place that provided a place of religious freedom for Quakers. Because of giving freedom people were enjoying living in Pennsylvania. Moreover, people can feel that the Pennsylvania colony is helping them to feel free and to have friends -
The French and Indian War
This event didn't make Britain or France become the strongest in North America. Specifically, the Ohio River valley had such a strong impact because it's the place that people were trading their goods. When colonists saw that they thought Britain or France should be strong -
The Sugar Act
This event is when the British are trying to get 100,000 pounds by having a sugar trade because of this goal they changed their duty. The original duty was six pence per gallon, but it changed to 3 pence per gallon. Moreover, the focus of The Sugar Act is non-British goods to avoid the taxes imposed by Parliament. -
The Currency Act
This event is where lots of colonies suffer from the currency system of trading because when they have some trade, they buy the goods by giving more credit than the same status, so people become prohibited from this issue. -
The Stamp Act
England wanted to pay their troops in the colonies, so they passed the Stamp Act. It put a tax on papers, documents, and other stuff. If the colonists didn’t pay, they were punished unfairly without a jury. The colonists hated this act. For them, it was an example of “taxation without lㅣrepresentation.” -
The Quartering Act
This event is where the British soldiers are requiring food and shelter to protect them. Moreover, they needed the fuel, and transportation for British forces stationed in their towns or villages. They required a lot of things because the war was expensive so they tried to increase their land. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight with the British by using stones, and rocks. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by the anger of the citizenry. -
The Townshend Revenue Act
They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. The British government enacted a series of taxes for colonists to collect the revenues. -
The Boston Tea Party
This event is when American colonists are angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation, so they put lots of cars into the labor. Moreover, this event is the first time that the rule has been adopted. Lots of colonists were mad because of the British imposing during the french and Indian war. -
The First Continental Congress
This meeting is made by the new British rule, so each leader of the colonists tries to talk about the British's new taxes. If the leaders can’t suggest resisting their colony to boycott for British’s goods from the beginning on. -
The Ride of Paul Revere
The focus of The Ride of Paul Revere is the student should remember in the history class that race to Concord to want Patriots Samuel Adams and John Hancock to march to Concord to arrest them. This riding was important because warnings were given to the colonists and the militia by the riders enabled them to be prepared. -
The Second Continental Congress
This event Congress did a nice job with raising the army for war, appointing ambassadors, and issuing paper currency. Even though they were a Congress they still had limited power. Because Congress can enact any legislation. -
Patrick Henry’s “Give me Liberty or give me Death” speech
This speech is about him trying to persuade the Virginia people for the use of his Logos, Ethos, and Pathos. for resisting British Oppression. His speech’s meaning was that liberty is how we can have some resistance to the British, not even just saying okay and surrender. -
George Washington named Commander in Chief
George Washington was commander in chief of the continental army during the American war. After the American war, George Washington became the U.S. president for two terms six the U.S. president. And he was the first president of the United States.
