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The American Revolution

By istanton3640
  • The Beginning Of The Enlightenment

    The Beginning Of The Enlightenment

    The Enlightenment advocated reason as a means to establishing an authoritative system of aesthetics, ethics, government, and even religion, which would allow human beings to obtain objective truth about the whole of reality
  • The French Indian War

    The French Indian War

    War started because both sides wanted to increase in more land. the war had took more lives then the American Revolution.
  • The Sugar Acts

    The Sugar Acts

    The British placed a tax on sugar, wine, and many more things. they tax it because they wanted more money for security because of wars that was going on in the colonies. many citizens were upset about this so most of them rebell and started to stop buying the goods and boycott
  • The Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act

    british tries to set a law on every printed paper will be tax. this was another way for england to raise more money for there colonies. the citizens rebell and made up the Patrick Henry's Stamp Act Resolves.
  • The Tea Act

    The Tea Act

    this was to help the East India Company which was not doing good financially and had eighteen million pounds of unsold tea so they sold it to the colonies for a bargain price. this would not help local bussiness so the colonies in new york and Philadelphia turned back the ships and would not let them unload which eventually begin the bosten tea party.
  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party

    This was the rebell against the bristish which were trying to tax the tea. the colonies begin to destory and throw tea off ships. this was a politcal protest
  • Battle of lexington and Concord

    Battle of lexington and Concord

    british army was requested to come capture two men in concord but they men were warned and was ready for war when they came. they battle started because of one person who is unknown fired a shot. this eventually begin the revolutionary war.
  • The Second Continentional Congress

    The Second Continentional Congress

    This meeting was with the 13 colonies. this was to decide to break way from Great Britain. they eventually agreed yes and put the colonies into defense
  • Thomas Paine Publishes Common Sense

    Thomas Paine Publishes Common Sense

    A book that was first published unknown by a englishmen who was going agaisnt the bristish colonies telling americans we should rebell against the british and become independent
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    the thirteen American colonies at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states and no longer a part of the British Empire
  • Valley Forge

    Valley Forge

    Soldiers who waited out in cabin for almost 5 months with little food and heat. most were bloody or naked wrapped in covers.
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    A treaty that ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America
  • Shay's Rebellion

    Shay's Rebellion

    Economic depressionAggressive tax and debt collectionState fiscal policy
  • Ratification of the Constitution

    Ratification of the Constitution

    Another meeting of making laws for the states and colonies
  • Constitutional Convention

    Constitutional Convention

    To fix the problems of governing the states and colonies