In May 1787, delegates representing states gathered at Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania State House for the Constitutional Convention. Drafting of the...
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On April 19, 1775, British soldiers and American militiamen exchanged gunfire on the village green in Lexington, Massachusetts. The...
To deal with the intolerable acts of the British Parliament which endangered the liberties of every colony. This congress...
INTOLERABLE ACTS OF 1774 These laws were enacted in order to punish the port of Boston and the people...
In 1773, a new Tea Act was passed imposing a tax on import of tea. It was a symbol...
To help the financial conditions of the ailing East India Company (faced economic collapse after the Seven Years of...
The Rockingham Declaration stated that the British Parliament’s authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted...
The Prime Minister Grenville framed the policies with the following objectives: The aim of the tax was to help...
The Seven Years Wars (1756-63) were the series of wars going on between Great Britain and its allies against...
The British colonies sprang up on the Eastern part of the present day USA. They were promoted by chartered...
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