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End of the French and Indian War
The French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years' War, was considered a global conflict that was resolved by the signing of the Treaty of Paris. The Treaty of Paris was signed by France, Great Britain, and Spain. -
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American Revolution
The American Revolution was a political disturbance that took
place between 1765 and 1783. The thirteen American colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy. The rejection overthrew the authority of Great Britain and the colonists founded the United States of America. -
Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation closed off the great western frontier to colonial expansion. The king and his council presented the proclamation as a result to calm the Indian's fears of losing their land. -
Stamp Act of 1765
The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act in the year of 1765. The new tax is enforced on all the American colonists. The colonists are required to pay a tax on all of the printed paper they use, for instance; papers for the ships, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and playing cards are taxed. -
Quartering Act of 1765
Parliament passed the Quartering Act which tells the locations and conditions that British soldiers need to find room and board in the American colonies. The Quartering Act requires colonists to let British soldiers live in the colonies. -
Stamp Act Congress
All of the appeals sent to Parliament by the individual legislatures had been ignored. A guy named James Otis suggested that the colonists should have a conference to agree on the action they wanted to take. This suggestion caused the Stamp Act Congress. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was considered a street fight that occurred in 1770 between the Patriots and British soldiers. The colonists did not like the British soldiers in the city of Boston. The riot began when the colonists attacked a British sentinel. -
Tea Act of 1773
The Tea Act was passed by Parliament in 1773, which caused another conflict in the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not supposed to raise revenue in the colonies and was not imposed on new taxes. The act was designed to help the East India Company because they were floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. -
Boston Tea Party
The reason for the Boston Tea Party was an American protest against taxation. The British Parliament was trying to help the East India Company by adjusting import duties with the passage of the Tea Act. -
Coercive (Intolerable) Acts 1774
Parliament passes many acts due to them wanting to calm the commotions and insurrections that had taken place in Boston. The first act passed caused the closing of the port of Boston. Two more acts were passed called the Administration of Justice Act and the Massachusetts Government Act. These acts plus the Quebec Act and the Quartering Act are best known as the Coercive Acts. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress had their first meeting in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia. This meeting was held starting in September of 1774 and ending in October of 1774. All of the colonies except Georgia sent representatives. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord started the American Revolutionary War. The tensions between the 13 American colonies and the British authorities had been building for many years, especially in Massachusetts. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress gathered to figure out a couple questions; how the colonists were going to meet the military threat of the British and how the supplies were going to be paid for? -
New York Campaign (Battle of Long Island)
The British army began to grow to about 32,000 men and that is including more than 8,000 mercenaries that were hired to serve in America. Washington moved his army from Boston to follow the British evacuation. -
Battle of Princeton
General Charles Cornwallis was deeply concerned by George Washington’s victory over the British in Trenton. Cornwallis arrived with his troops in Trenton prepared to scare Washington’s five thousand Continentals and militia with his eight thousand Redcoats. -
Battle of Saratoga
The two Battles of Saratoga were a turning point in the American Revolution. A British General named John Burgoyne achieved a small, but costly victory over the Americans. Even though Burgoyne’s troop strength had been weakened, he tried attacking the Americans again, but this time he was defeated and forced to retreat. -
Southern Campaign
The Southern Campaign was a strong effort of the British to demolish the rebellion of the Carolinas and Georgia after the way the war of the North had ended. The British was upset over the setbacks in the north and had planned for a quick and easy expedition south to reclaim their power over the Patriots who had gained control of the royal governors. -
Articles of Confederation
The first written constitution of the United States was the Articles of Confederation. -
Battle of Yorktown
George Washington commanded a group of 17,000 French and Continental troops, which they began the blockade known as the Battle of Yorktown against the British general named Lord Charles Cornwallis and about 9,000 British troops at Yorktown. This battle was the most important battle of the Revolutionary War. -
Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met to make notice of the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation. -
Ratification of the Constitution
The first Congress of the United States adopted the first twelve amendments to the U.S. Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, and sent them to the states for ratification.
