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1774- Intolerable acts
Intolerable Acts, also called Coercive Acts, in U.S. colonial history, four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament in retaliation for acts of colonial defiance, together with the Quebec Act establishing a new administration for the territory ceded to Britain after the French and Indian War (1754–63). -
1776- Thomas paine common sense
The common sense challenged authority of the British government and the royal monarch. He also used a very plain language to speak to the common people and openly asked for independence from great Britain. -
Virginia Declaration of Rights
The Virginia Declaration of Rights is a document drafted in 1776 to proclaim the inherent rights of men, including the right to reform or abolish "inadequate" government. -
Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Declaration announced that the Thirteen Colonies then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain would regard themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states no longer under British rule. With the Declaration, these new states took a a big change of forming the United States of America. -
Weakness of the articles
The major downfall of the Articles of Confederation was simply weakness. The federal government, under the Articles, was too weak to enforce their laws and therefore had no power. The Continental Congress had borrowed money to have a good fight in the revolutionary war but in the end but in the end was not able to pay the debt. -
shays rebellion
Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts, mostly i around Springfield during 1786 and 1787. American Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels in a protest against perceived economic and civil rights injustices.