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sons of liberty
The Sons of Liberty was a secret organization that was made in the Thirteen American Colonies to exceed the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxes by the British government. the Sons of Liberty was a formal underground organization with recognized members and leaders. More likely, the name was an underground term for any men resisting new Crown taxes and laws. -
stamp act
neat text . The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British Parliament. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was deep in debt from the Seven Years' War (1756-63) and looking to its North American colonies as a revenue source. -
Boston massacre
The Boston Massacre, known to the British as the accident on King Street, was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shooting and killing several people while being harassed by a mob of red backs in Boston. British troops had been stationed in the Province of Massachusetts Bay since 1768 in order to support crown-appointed officials and to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation. https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-massacre -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a popular and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. Indians boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The British government responded terribly and the cause escalated into the American Revolution. -
second continental congress meets
The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that joined in the American Revolutionary War. in this meeting they established the continental army. -
articles of confederation
Articles of Confederation, 1777–1781. The Articles of Confederation served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. -
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Battle of Yorktown
A joint American force of Colonial and French troops laid fire to the British Army at Yorktown, Virginia fall 1971. Led by George Washington and French General Comte de Rochambeau, they began their final attack on October 14th, capturing two British defenses leading to the surrender of the British just days later, of General Cornwallis and nearly 9,000 troops. Yorktown proved to be the final of of the American Revolution, and the British began peace negotiations soon after the American victory. -
Treaty Of Paris Signed
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by the members of King George III of Great Britain and member of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, finalized the American Revolutionary War. The treaty set the rules between the British Empire in North America and the United States, on lines "exceedingly generous" to the latter. https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/paris.html -
3/5 compromise
The Three-Fifths Compromise greatly augmented southern political power. the 1787 Three-Fifths Compromise, the southern states had nearly 45 percent of the seats in the first U.S. Congress, which took office in 1790. -
The great compromise
The great compromise was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution.The most significant effect of the Great Compromise was the change in the American Government structure. -
Constitution is ratified
On September 17, 1787, a big number of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention officially approved the documents over which they had labored since May. For 2 days, September 26 and 27, Congress contemplated whether to censure the delegates to the Constitutional Convention for advancing their authority by creating a new form of government instead of simply revising the Articles of Confederation. -
enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Reason or simply the Enlightenment) was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, the "Century of Philosophy". -
bill of rights adopted
September 25, 1789, Congress transmitted to the state Legislatures twelve proposed amendments to the Constitution. amendments three through twelve were adopted by the states to become the United States (U.S.) Bill of Rights, effective December 15, 1791. James Madison proposed the U.S. Bill of Rights. It largely responded to the Constitution's influential opponents, including prominent Founding Fathers, who argued that the Constitution should not be ratified because it failed to protect humans. -
townshed act of 1767
The British Crown emerged victorious from the French and Indian War in 1763, but defending the North American colonies from French expansion had proved tremendously costly to England. Compared to Great Britain’s debts, the cost of the French and Indian War to the colonists had been slight. The colonists – who arguably enjoyed a higher standard of living at the time than their British counterparts – paid less than one-twentieth the taxes of British citizens living in England.
