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The French and Indian War began over the issue of the upper Ohio River valley. It was fought to decide if Britain or France would be the strong power in North America. click here
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the British parliament passed the "stamp act of 1765" to help pay for British troops who where in the Seven Years War.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. They placed new taxes here are some examples: new taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.
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Boston Massacre was a fatal riot that occurred on King Street in Boston. It started off as a street fight but soon became a chaotic blood slaughter.
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The Sons of Liberty rallied support for colonial resistance that sometimes resorted to violence against British officials. -
Boston Tea party was a political protest that occurred in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists were mad at Britain for imposing "taxation without representation".
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The Intolerable Acts were five laws passed by the British Parliament against the American colonies. -
Word spread from town to town, and militias prepared to confront the British and help their neighbors in Lexington and Concord. During the battles of Lexington and Concord, 73 British soldiers had been killed and 174 wounded; 26 were missing. -
Thomas Jefferson had drafted the first copy of the Olive Branch Petition. The Olive Branch petition noted the union between Great Britain and her colonies excited the envy of other nations.
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The significance of the battle was that Cornwallis surrendered to Geroge Washington as French and American forces trapped the British Yorktown.
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Connecticut Compromise, also known as Great Compromise, in United States history, the compromise offered by Connecticut delegates Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth during the drafting of the Constitution of the United States at the 1787 convention to solve the dispute between small and large states over representation in the new federal government.
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The constitutional convention was a formal meeting held in 1787 with the motive of creating a new constitution for the United States.
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The Three-fifths Compromise was an agreement reached in the United States over the counting of slaves in determining a state's total population. -
Bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse. Established soaring principles that guaranteed the most fundamental rights in very general terms.
