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Boston Tea Party ✧ Date: December 16, 1773

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Boston Tea Party ✧ Date: December 16, 1773

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Significane: A raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor,(December 16, 1773) in which the Boston colonists disguised as Indians to throw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea as well as against the monopoly granted the East India Company.  This act of protest against taxation without representation escalated into the Great American Revolutionary War for independence from Great Britain. It was key event because it spiked tension that had already begun between Britain and America.

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Lexington and Concord ✧ Date: April, 1775

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Lexington and Concord ✧ Date: April, 1775

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Significance: The British Army set out from Boston to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington as well as to destroy the Americans store of weapons and ammunition in Concord. While the colonists lost many minutemen, the Battles of Lexington and Concord were considered a major military victory and displayed to the British and King George III that unjust behavior would not be tolerated in America. The battles also constituted the first military conflicts of the American Revolutionary War.

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Battle of Bunker Hill ✧ Date: June 17, 1775

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Battle of Bunker Hill ✧ Date: June 17, 1775

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Significance: The first major battle of the American Revolution was the Battle of Bunker Hill. The battle was fought during the Siege of Boston. Even though Britain ended up winning this first battle, it suffered heavy losses. This encouraged the Americans and was a sign that the colonists could hold their own against the redcoats.

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Significance: Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Thomas Paine used, spoke to the common people of America and was the first attempt to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. Nearly 120,000 copies of Paine's brilliant arguments were read and talked about all over. He argued for two main points: (1) independence from England and (2) the creation of a democratic republic. This document  helped guide the  people into supporting those individuals who favored declaring independence from Great Britain.

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Declaration of Independence ✧ Date: July 4, 1776

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Declaration of Independence ✧ Date: July 4, 1776

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Significance: The introductory sentence states the Declaration's main purpose is to explain the colonists' right to revolution. In other words, “to declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” Congress had to prove the legitimacy of its cause. It had just defied the most powerful nation on Earth.  The document explains as to why the colonies were separated from Britain, saying, “these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be Free and Independent States.”

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Attack on British troops at Trenton ✧ Date: December, 1776

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Attack on British troops at Trenton ✧ Date: December, 1776

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Significance: George Washington's initial plan was to conduct a surprise attack upon a Hessian garrison of roughly 1,400 soldiers located in and around Trenton, New Jersey. Washington hoped that a quick victory against Trenton would strive for his army  and encourage more men to join the ranks of the Continentals come the new year. The conflict was that the Hessian army was demolished in Washington's raid across the Delaware River and the Americans were invigorated by the easy defeat of the British Hessian forces.

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France join's the Americans ✧ Date: 1780

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France join's the Americans ✧ Date: 1780

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Significance: About 6,000 French troops arrived in Rhode Island under the command of Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, to aid the Continental Army against the British. They waited there for nearly a year until French naval support arrived. In 1781, Rochambeau and his troops joined George Washington on a march to Yorktown, Virginia.

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Significance: Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown effectively ended the Revolutionary War. Lacking the financial resources to raise a new army, the British government appealed to the Americans for peace. After years of war and changing fortunes, the capitulation of the British marked a decisive turning point and Yorktown was to be the last major battle of the American War of Independence.

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Treaty of Paris is signed ✧ Date: September 3, 1783

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Treaty of Paris is signed ✧ Date: September 3, 1783

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Significance: The American Revolution ended when the Treaty of Paris was signed on September 3, 1783. By the terms set out by this U.S.-Britain treaty, the Britain recognized the United States’ independence with generous boundaries to the Mississippi River. Britain retained Canada. Americans were guaranteed access to the Newfoundland fisheries, and both Britain and the United States were allowed navigation of the Mississippi River.

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The Bill of Rights ✧ Date: October 2, 1789

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The Bill of Rights ✧ Date: October 2, 1789

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Significance: The Bill of Rights were the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution. It spells out Americans' rights in relation to their government. It guarantees civil rights and liberties to the individual—like freedom of speech, press, and religion. It was added to the Constitution to protect the people from the national government from having too much power and to protect individual liberties against abuse by the federal government.