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A conflict between France and Great Britain that resulted in Britain taking over all French lands in North America.
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The Sugar Act is an act passed by the British Parliament in 1764. It placed a tax of three cents on sugar that was bought by the American colonists.
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The tax required Americans to pay tax on every piece of printed paper used.
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Cruise directly to the American colonies to export their tea instead of going first to Britain and then export it again to the same colonies.
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Chopped open the tea trunks they found onboard and dumped almost 10,000 pounds (about 4,500 kilograms) of tea into the harbor.
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British troops were sent to Concord to capture John Hancock and Samuel Adams, but both men had been warned about the British attack.
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A convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies
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The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.
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A statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies.
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Valley Forge is the story of the six month encampment of the Continental Army of the newly formed United States of America under the command of General George Washington.
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Officially ended the revolution, and recognized the United States of America as an independent nation.
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The convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787.
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A majority of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention approved the documents over which they had labored since May.
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Uprising in western Massachusetts. In a period of economic depression and land seizures for debt collection,
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When historians have given dates, the English Civil wars and revolutions are sometimes given as the start, as they influenced Thomas Hobbes and one of the Enlightenment’s
