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first perminant settlement founded.
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was the first british colony.
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the frist written constitution.
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The French and Indian War was a seven-year war between England and the American colonies, against the French and some of the Indians in North America.
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The seven years war ended with the signing of the treaties of Hubertusburg and Paris in February 1763.
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The Currency Act of 1764 was a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain , on September 1, 1764, that was designed to control the colonial currency system.
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The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were applied with the design of raising £40,000 a year for the administration of the colonies.
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in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others.
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The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773.
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Upset by the Boston Tea Party and other blatant acts of destruction of British property by American colonists, the British Parliament enacts the Coercive Acts, to the outrage of American Patriots, on this day in 1774.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War.
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first written constitution .
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"turning point battle" of the revolutionary war.
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They had been forced to retreat at both battles. This left them discouraged.
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Articles of Confederation: Primary Documents of American
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On this day in 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War.
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International Treaties and Related Records
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International Treaties and Related Records
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The stated goal of the Convention — the revision of the Articles of Confederation —
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The structure and powers of the new U.S. Congress, as proposed by the delegates of the Constitutional Convention.
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The three-fifths figure was the outgrowth of a debate that had taken place within the Continental Congress in 1783. The Articles of Confederation had apportioned taxes not according to population but according to land values.
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The Bill of Rights, constitutes the first 10 amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
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During 1793 and 1794, a series of explosive controversies divided followers of Hamilton and Jefferson.
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As in the previous war, taxes were a central issue. And Alexander Hamilton understood that putting down this rebellion was critical to the life of the nation.
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Spanish and U.S. negotiators concluded the Treaty of San Lorenzo, also known as Pinckney’s Treaty, on October 27, 1795.
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This treaty, known officially as the "Treaty of Amity Commerce and Navigation, between His Britannic Majesty; and The United States of America" attempted to diffuse the tensions between England and the United States that had risen to renewed heights since the end of the Revolutionary War.
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The Federalists believed that Democratic-Republican criticism of Federalist policies was disloyal and feared that aliens living in the United States would sympathize with the French during a war.
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was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million dollars.
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fighting over documents.
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Learned and thoughtful, John Adams was more remarkable as a political .
