The events that took place during this time period showed progress because this was the first rough step carved on the way to forming the United States of America. Without the foundation that as built here, and in many cases the anger it caused leading to the revolution, we may have never turned out to be the country we did. So by the fact that were looking at the colonial times and all the way back to the first pilgrims staring up on this new land, yes these events did show a serious amount of progress.