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The enlightenment was a European movement in the late 17th and 18th centuries that highlighted independence rather than the status quo. It was largely rubbed off by 17th century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and large influences were Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith. click me
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the colonies of British America were against of New France during The French and Indian War , each side was supported by the military from their parent country and by Native American allies.click me
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The British Parliament passed the "Stamp Act" to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War. Tis resulted in the colonists having to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on numerous forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. click me -
The group of Sons of Liberty was organized in the American colonies in the summer of 1765 to protest the Stamp Act. the sons of liberty was composed of 19 men According to Voices of the Revolution: Sons of Liberty
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The Townshend Acts were a list of tax and rules set by the British Parliament in 1767, this act was named after Charles Townshend, he was a British chancellor of the Exchequer. the townshend act taxed goods imported to the American colonies such as glass, lead, paint, paper and tea, It also imposed duties on british china -
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation, in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that took place, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence. -
he Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation on November 15, 1777. The Articles of Confederation was the first constitution of the United states. However, ratification of our first constitution by all thirteen states did not happen until March 1, 1781, 4 years after it was created.
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Siege of Yorktown, joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. The siege virtually ended military operations in the American Revolution. -
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there.
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On this day the convention adopted the Great Compromise by a one vote margin. The Great Compromise formed two legislative bodies in Congress.
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The Constitution became the official framework of the government of the United States of America when New Hampshire became the 9th of 13 states to ratify it. Until the new Constitution was ratified, the country was governed by the Articles of Confederation.
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The Bill of Rights was inspired by Thomas Jefferson and drafted by James Madison and was in the process of being adopted in 1791. The Constitution's first ten amendments became the law.
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