MR AUSTIN - Timeline

13 colonies stretch along the east coast of North America

The French and Indian war ends

To increase taxes paid by colonist , Parliament passed the sugar act

Stamp Act 1st British Parliamentary attempt to raise revenge through direct taxation of all colonial commercial and legal paper,newspapers, pampletes , cards almanals , and dice

Paraliament repealed the stamp act

Boston Massacre British soldiers fire on a group of angry colonist killing 5

Boston Tea Party ,Men disguised as Native Americans boarded 3 ships and dumped the British tea overboard

Intolarable Acts New laws passed to punish the Colonist for the troubles they caused

Colonist adopts the Declaration of Independence Start of the American Revolution!!!!!!

Montequieu put out his book called Spirit Of Laws , which explained that the best kind of goverment would be the government that seperated powers among the legislative, executive . and judicial powers. Which in later years the american constitution created a federal republic which the idea was directly borrowed from this book

Locke thought that all people are entitled to what he identified as natural rights which are life liberty and property, and when the American constitution wrote the declaration of independence they gave three examples of the "unalienable rights" which were "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"