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a North American conflict between Great Britain and France with both sides supported by various Native American tribes. The conflict resulted in a British victory.
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a group of American colonists who formed in the mid 1760s to protest British rule and taxation.
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it was a British law where they put a tax on American colonies by making them pay a tax on all printed materials represented by a stamp.
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a deadly riot that happened in Boston Massachusetts where British soldiers fired in to a crowd of people and killing 5 and wounded 6 -
the Boston tea party was a political protest against British taxation without representation at griffin's wharfs in Boston. Americans angry at the British Parliament's Tea Act granted the East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the, colonies lowered the tax on imported British tea. boarded three tea ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. -
it brought together the twelve of the thirteen American colonies Georgia did not go. to discuss their thought against the British government and formulate a response to what they considered oppressive acts. particularly the Intolerable Acts.
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in Philadelphia Pennsylvania shortly after the start of the Revolutionary War. They had a meeting at the Pennsylvania State House also known as the Independence Hall. The Congress was gathering delegates from the thirteen American colonies. it helped with guiding the colonies through the war and towards independence. -
the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
a document given to by the Second Continental Congress King George III seeking reconciliation between American colonies and Great Britain. It was a last attempt to avoid war by pleading directly to the King while also asserting the colonists' rights and grievances. -
a pivotal early battle of the American Revolutionary War -
where 13 American colonies came together to sign a paper declaration of their independence from Great Britain -
a defeat for the American Continental Army during Revolutionary War. Camden South Carolina. The battle resulted in a victory for the British forces against the American troops -
a treaty that ended the Revolutionary War. It established the United States as an independent nation and defined its borders.
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a pivotal agreement. Constitutional Convention that resolved the issue of representation in the US Congress. -
A joint House and Senate Conference Committee settled remaining disagreements. On October 2, 1789, President Washington sent copies of the 12 amendments adopted by Congress to the states.