The Constitution of the United States

 Events lead up the Constitution          of the United States.

• In 1764 - 1767:

    The UK Parliament of Great Britain and Northern Ireland passed to Colonists a series of the first laws which are: Sugar Act, Stamp Act and Townshend Acts. The Colonists had to pay for the British expenses. 

• In 1773:

    The Colonists held the Boston Tea Party at Massachusetts. In which against the British tax on tea by boarding ships carrying the taxed tea. There are about 340 chests of tea, weighing over 92,000 pounds that had dumped into Boston Harbor.

• In 1774:

    They British don't like the idea of the Boston Tea Party so in reply, Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts to punish the Massachusetts. Boston Harbor was closed for the business. In September 1774, The First Continental Congress met at Carpenters' Hall to prepare a Declaration of Rights and Grievances. They also came to make an urgent request to King George III, who is the King of Great Britain and Ireland. They do all of these for the response to the Colonies' outrage towards the Parliament for punishing Massachusetts to what they did at the Boston Tea Party.

• In 1775:

    The Revolutionary War is known as the US War of Independence. This war began with the Battle of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts in April. The Second Continental Congress met at Philadelphia in May 1775. George Washington was selected to be Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. 

• In 1776:

    Thomas Paine published Common Sense in Philadelphia. This pamphlet supported against the British. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence at the Jacob Graff House in June 1776. On July 4, 1776, The Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. 

• In 1783:

    The United States and Great Britain signed the Treaty of Paris to end the American Revolutionary War. 

• In 1787 - 1788:

    The Constitutional Convention met at Independence Hall in Philadelphia to draft, debate and sign the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787. In 1788, the US Constitution established the three branches of government and we still using it to today.