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"Two Treatises on Government" is published by John Locke
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The book "The Spirit of the Laws" was published anonymously by Baron de Montesquieu
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British settelers move into the Ohio River Valley which led to the French and Indian War
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An early attempt at forming a union of the colonies under one government as far as might be necessary.
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The war between the French and the British and their Native American allies
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Generel Braddock was defeated in a battle against the French.
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A large group of Native American warriors fights against the British
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King George lll passed a proclamation that stated that no colonists could establish settelments west of the Appalachian Mountains
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A tax on sugar was passed by Parliament
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Parliament passed a tax on paper.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed named after Charles Townshend
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Colonists surrounded and harassed a small group of nine British soldiers. The soldiers fired into the crowd, killing five and wounding six.
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Parliament passed a tax on tea
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Colonists throw 342 crates of tea worth thousands of dollars into Boston Harbor
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Parliament passed four laws named The Intolerable Acts by American colonists.
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The colonists battle against the British soldiers. The first shot of this battle is known as "The shot heard round the world"
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A convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies.
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The colonists battle against the British on Breed's hill
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A petition that affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain
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This battle was the first major American defeat in the American Revolutionary War
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A document that states that the thirteen English colonies are now an indipendent state
