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Jamestown Founded
first permanent English Settlement in what is now the United states. -
Virginia House of Burgesses
First form of Representation in Colonies -
Mayflower Compact
First written framework of government in what is now the United States.
Written by Puritan and Pilgrams to establish order in the colony of Plymouth. -
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
It was adopted by the Connecticut colony.
Basic laws of Connecticut. -
French and Indian War
fought for Ohio River Valley territories in North America -
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Signed by the Kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain -
War Ends
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Currency Act
the name of several Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America. -
Stamp Act
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Quartering Act
a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the 18th century. -
Townshend Act
were a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
Tea Act
an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain -
Boston Tea Party
The Most Important Event Leading to the American Revolution
American colonists rejected British tea taxes by dumping 90000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor.
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston -
Coercive Acts
he Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Massachusetts -
1st Continental Congress
was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
2nd Continental Congress
was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, -
Declaration of Independence
announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Battle of Saratoga
roved to be a crucial vistory for the Patriots and is considered a turning point of the Revolutionary War. -
Valley Forge
the site of the third winter encampment of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, -
Articles of Cofederation Written
represent the first constitutional agreement -
Battle of Yorktown
was one of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War. The engagement lasted 20 days -
Treaty of Paris
negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence -
Constitutional Convention
a gathering for the purpose of writing a new constitution or revising an existing constitution. -
Constitution was written
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Washington takes office
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Bill of Rights
is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. -
Genet Affair
began in 1793 when he was dispatched to the United States to promote American support for France's wars with Spain and Britain -
Whiskey Rebellion
was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington. -
PInckney's Treaty
was an integral aspect of early American history. -
Jay's Treaty
representatives of the United States and Great Britain signed Jay’s Treaty, which sought to settle outstanding issues between the two countries that had been left unresolved since American independence. -
Adams takes office
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XYZ Affair
was a diplomatic incident between French and United States diplomats that resulted in a limited, undeclared war known as the Quasi-War. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
were four bills that were passed by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams in 1798 in the aftermath of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with France, later known as the Quasi-War -
Quasi War begins
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Jeffersion takes office
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Louisiana Purchase
was a land deal between the United States and France -
Marbiry vs. Madison
was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States, departing in May, 1804 from St. Louis on the Mississippi River, making their way westward through the continental divide to the Pacific coast. -
Ebargo Act of 1807
was a general embargo enacted by the United States Congress against the United Kingdom and France during the Napoleonic Wars. -
McCulloch vs. Maryland
the Supreme Court ruled that Congress had implied powers under the Necessary and Proper Clause of Article I -
Gibbons vs. Ogden
was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce was granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution -
Proclomation of 1763
King George III's proclamation.
Declared by the British crown at the end of the Frnch and Indian War. -
Articles of Confederation were in force
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3/5 Compromise
was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives -
Great Compromise
was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution.
