The representatives of the 13 American colonies met as a group in what is called the First Continental Congress at First Philadelphia Convention in 1774. […]

In May 1787, delegates representing states gathered at Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania State House for the Constitutional Convention. Drafting of the Declaration of Independence and the signing […]

On April 19, 1775, British soldiers and American militiamen exchanged gunfire on the village green in Lexington, Massachusetts. The fighting spread to nearby Concord. Congress […]

To deal with the intolerable acts of the British Parliament which endangered the liberties of every colony. This congress was formed. The American colonists decided […]

INTOLERABLE ACTS OF 1774 These laws were enacted in order to punish the port of Boston and the people of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea […]

In 1773, a new Tea Act was passed imposing a tax on import of tea. It was a symbol to show that the British Parliament […]

To help the financial conditions of the ailing East India Company (faced economic collapse after the Seven Years of Wars). The Act eliminated the Customs […]

The Rockingham Declaration stated that the British Parliament’s authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted Parliament’s authority to pass laws that […]

The Prime Minister Grenville framed the policies with the following objectives: The aim of the tax was to help finance the British troops in colonies. […]

The Seven Years Wars (1756-63) were the series of wars going on between Great Britain and its allies against France and its allies. In the […]