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Privy Council
Regulating value of foreign coins according to silver content -
Virginia House of Burgesses
Comprehensive slave code -
Board of Trade
Ordered royal governors to veto any paper issues -
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The Great Awakening
a religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America -
Stono Rebellion
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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by Native American allies -
Rule of 1756
The Rule of 1756 or Rule of the War of 1756 was a policy of the Kingdom of Great Britain, and later the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that was promulgated during the Seven Years' War. It ruled that Britain would not trade with neutral nations who were also trading with the enemy -
Proclamation Line of 1763
Honor promises made toDelaware and Iroquois “Forthwith to remove themselves from such settlements” -
Sugar Act of 1764
Replaced Molasses Act of 1733 -
Stamp Act
The first direct tax on American colonies must bear a stamp. Taxed items: wills, newspapers, pamphlets, bills, licenses, almanacs, dice, playing cards -
Quartering Act
Each colonial assembly was directed to provide for the basic needs of soldiers stationed within borders -
Stamp Act Congress
Delegates from 9 colonies. Petition to the King. Parliament alarmed at the violence of colonial protestors -
Declaratory Act
“had, hath, and of right ought to have full power and authority to make laws and statues of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever” -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams. -
Tea Act
Proposed to give monopoly to East India Company on direct sales to the colonies -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts -
Quebec Act
The Quebec Act 1774, formally known as the British North America Act 1774, was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain setting procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War -
King George III declared colonies in North America to be in a state of rebellion
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Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776 -
Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776
The Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 was the state's first constitution following their declaration of independence and has been described as the most democratic in America -
George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River
George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River, which occurred on the night of December 25–26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a surprise attack organized by George Washington against Hessian forces in Trenton, New Jersey, on the morning of December 26 -
France recognized independence of the United States
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Battles of Saratoga
marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War -
The Continental Army leaves Valley Forge
On this day in history, June 19, 1778, the Continental Army leaves its encampment at Valley Forge in pursuit of the British Army. British General William Howe had captured Philadelphia in September of 1777. George Washington's Continental Army had tried unsuccessfully to defeat the invading army at the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America officially ended the American Revolutionary War. -
Shays' Rebellion
Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades -
George Washington
George Washington was an American political leader, military general, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Previously, he led Patriot forces to victory in the nation's War for Independence -
Judiciary Act of 1789
The Judiciary Act of 1789 was a United States federal statute adopted on September 24, 1789, in the first session of the First United States Congress -
1796 United States presidential election
John Adams is Elected
