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Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party, (December 16, 1773), incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. -
Boston Tea Party Revolt
The midnight raid, popularly known as the “Boston Tea Party,” was in protest of the British Parliament's Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade. -
Intolerable acts
laws that were made to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
This marks the start of the revolutionary war which started on on April 19, 1775. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence, the founding document of the United States, was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, -
Alliance with France
Benjamin Franklin Decides to team up with the French in order to take down the British. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States, recognized American independence and established borders for the new nation. -
Constitution is Signed
39 of the 55 delegates signed the new document, with many of those who refused to sign objecting to the lack of a bill of rights -
Constitution is Ratified
the Constitution became the official framework of the government of the United States of America when New Hampshire became the ninth of 13 states to ratify it. -
Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights is the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution. It guarantees civil rights and liberties to the individual—like freedom of speech, press, and religion