Events
The Massacre of 5 colonists by the British Troops.
The culmination of tension in the American colonies,
that had been growing since the British came to
Massachusetts.These were acts that imposed duties
(taxes) on glass, lead, paints, paper,
and tea imported into the colonies.
The colonists saw this as an abuse of
power and caused the Boston Tea Party
and the Americans to limit their
imports from England.A political protest that was led by the Sons of
Liberty, which included dumping the cargo
(tea) off of 3 British ships. This happened in
retaliation to the high taxes on tea. This was
one of the first major acts of defiance by the
Sons of Liberty that overstepped their
boundaries.A meeting of 56 delegates from
all of the colonies except Georgia,
in Philadelphia to discuss the
Coercive/ Intolerable Acts
imposed by the British government
on the colonies in response to
them rebelling to the new taxes.
It is the first time the colonies
gathered together to unite
against the British.These laws were passed by
British Parliament on March 24th, 1774.
These harsh laws were put in place as a
punishment for the destruction caused
by the Boston Tea Party. The first act
passed was the Boston Port Bill, where
they closed the Boston Harbor until the
people of Boston paid for the tea that
they threw into the harbor.This war was the start of the
American Revolutionary. The
British troops marched from
Boston to Concord and
ultimately lost.Was drafted on July 5th, 1775, and was
submitted to King George III on July 8th.
This was an attempt to assert the rights
of the colonists while maintaining their
loyalty to the British crown.It advocated independence
for the colonies from Britain.
This was a major cause to the
revolution because it united
important political leaders
and average citizens.A meeting of the delegates after the
revolutionary war had started where
they declared their independence from
Britain as a united front. After 5 years,
the congress ratified the first national
constitution that would be used for 8
years as the government, until our
current constitution replaced it.Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and
Benjamin Franklin created a formal
statement of the colonies. The
Congress adopted the Declaration of
Independence a date celebrated as the
birth of American independence. It
declared independence from England.Periods
Boston Massacre - March 5, 1770Townshend Acts - June 29, 1767Boston Tea Party - December 16, 1773First Continental Congress - Sep. 5, 1774 to Oct. 26, 1774Intolerable Acts - March 24, 1774Battle of Lexington and Concord - April 19, 1775Olive Branch Petition - July 5, 1775Common Sense - Jan. 10, 1776Second Continental Congress - July 4, 1776Declaration of Independence - July 4, 1776
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