American Revolution
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- The Stamp Act (March 1765)
- No one is going to buy good from them; they tax us too high!
- This is too unfair! How come I have to pay tax for every good I purchase?
- The Boston Massacre (March 1770)
- Oh no!
- AAAHHHH!!!
- We told you to watch out or else!
- The Boston Tea Party (December 1773)
- NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!
- The Stamp Act was imposed to provide increased revenues to meet the costs of defending the enlarged British Empire. It was the first British parliamentary attempt to raise revenue through direct taxation on a wide variety of colonial transactions. Enraged colonists nullified the Stamp Act through outright refusal to use the stamps as well as by riots, stamp burning, and intimidation of colonial stamp distributors.
- Lexington and Concord (April 1775)
- Shoot them or else!!!!!!
- The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot by a small British army detachment, killing five people. It happened because a disagreement between an apprentice wigmaker and a British soldier led to a crowd of 200 colonists surrounding seven British troops.
- The U.S. Declaration of Independence (July 1776)
- The Boston Tea Party was a political protest in 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
- Treaty of Paris (September 1783)
- Revolutionary War is over now!
- The significance of this battle was the first shot of the battle; it was known as the shot heard around the world. The British Army set out from Boston to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington as well as to destroy the American store of weapons and ammunition in Concord. The battle left 73 British soldiers dead and 49 minutemen killed.
- BANG!
- People have certain inalienable rights including life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
- After Congress recommended that colonies form their own governments, the Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson and revised in committee. The four key ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence were equality, unalienable rights, consent of the governed, and the right to alter or abolish government.
- The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. America has become an independent country officially.
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