Ws timeline

The stamp act

1765

This was a act that Great Britain declared a direct tax on British colonies in America

Intolerable acts

1774

The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their doing in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government.

Declaration of Independence

1776

First Principles of the rule of law, unalienable rights, limited government, the Social Compact, equality, and the right to alter or abolish oppressive government.

Siege of Yorktown

1781

American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown

Treaty of Paris

1783

The Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S. and British Representatives ending the War of the American Revolution

The constitution of the United States

1787

It says “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

The naturalization act

1790

It limited access to U.S. citizenship to white immigrants in effect, to people from Western Europe who had resided in the U.S. at least two years and their children under 21

The bill of rights

1791

It guarantees civil rights and liberties to the individual—like freedom of speech, press, and religion