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The Navigation Act were acts of parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade. -
Navigation Acts started in 1651 and ended in 1660.
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Lasted from 1754 - 1763, and ended with the Treaty of Paris.
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The war ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gain in North America. But disputes about the frontier policy and paying the war’s expenses led to colonial discontent, and eventually the American Revolution. -
The Stamp Act was an Act of the Parliament that taxed items such as newspapers and pamphlets. Although they were not burdensome, the colonists resented them as an attack on their rights. -
In March 1770, British Soldiers in Boston opened fire on a crowd that was pelting them with stones and snowballs. The Colonists reported the deaths of 5 protesters, this incident would become known as the Boston Massacre. -
In an effort to save the troubled enterprise, the British Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773. The granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England. -
On December, 1773 a handful of Colonists hurled a cargo of recently arrived British tea into the harbor as protest to the tax on tea. This incident became known as the Boston Tea Party. -
The Coercive Acts, called the Intolerable Acts by American Colonists, was passed by Parliament in response to the colonial resistance to British rule. -
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of Delegates from 12 of 13 British Colonies that became the United States. -
At the Battles of Lexington and Concord, colonists clashed with British troops, the opening shots of the American Revolution. -
The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of the Delegates from the 13 colonies in America. -
In 1776, Congress took a momentous step, voting to declare independence from Britain, which they then signed. -
Lasted from September 19th - October 17th of 1777.
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The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a Victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. -
Valley Forge functioned as the third of eight winter encampments for the Continental Army’s main body, which was commanded by General George Washington. -
Valley Forge started on December 19th, 1777, and ended on June 19th, 1778. It lasted exactly 6 months.
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Finally, in 1781 Washington forced the surrender of a British Army at Yorktown, Virginia. With that defeat, the British War effort crumbled. -
The Battle lasted a little less than a month, a swift victory for the Americans.
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During the hot summer of 1787, George Washington, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin hammered out the Constitution of the United States. The framework for a strong, flexible government has remained in place for more than 200 years. -
The framework of the Constitution had absorbed ideas from people like Locke, Rousseau, and Montesquieu.