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The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade. This would only add to the frustration of the colonies.
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England and her colonies defeated France and Native American allies. British treasury drained. Britain thought colonists should pay their share.
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In need of money, Great Britain taxed all paper documents in the colonies. This was "taxation without representation."
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Out of increasing resentment towards the soldiers, some colonists started pelting them with stones and snowballs, and eventually, the soldiers fought back. The colonists then labeled the event as a massacre and stirred resentment even more.
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To bail out the East India Company, Great Britain gave it a monopoly on tea trade with the colonies. The colonists did not like that this was done without their consent.
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The colonists were fed up with "taxation without representation," and dumped 342 chests of tea off of East India ships.
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Great Britain implemented these 4 acts to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party. The four acts were the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act. This was the last straw for the colonists.
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Delegates from all of the colonies except Georgia met to create a response to the Coercive Acts in the form of the Articles of Association.
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This meeting convened after the revolutionary war had begun and declared America's independence from Great Britain.
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These battles started the Revolutionary War and were a message that the colonists could fight against the British army.
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This document severed the colonists' ties with Great Britain and clearly outlined why they were doing so.
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This was a decisive victory for the colonists and a turning point in the War for Independence.
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The severe winter was tough on the men stationed at Valley Forge, but through loyalty to the patriot cause and George Washington, they persevered. This proved that America could get through anything.
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George Washington manages to surround the British at Yorktown with American and French troops and ends the War for Independence.
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This is the document that defined our government and still enforces it today. It imposed ideas inspired by the enlightenment like separation of powers to create a brand new kind of government.
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The constitution is signed by everyone and put into use. This is the day the government we know today was started.
