American Revolution

By bseidel

  • John Locke writes the Fundamental Constitution of Carolina

  • Charles Louis de Secondat becomes the Baron on Mentsquieu

  • Baron of Montesqueiu published his first book, Letters persanes

  • Samuel Adams was born

  • Paul Revere was born

  • Thomas Jefferson was born in Virginia

  • Currency act of 1751

  • French and Indian War

  • Martha and George Washington are married

  • Paul Revere joins The Sons of Liberty

  • Period: to

    John and Abigail exchange over 1,100 letters

  • Proclamation of 1763 issued by England

    prohibited settling beyond the Appalachians

  • The Sugar Act

  • John and Abigail Adams were married

  • Stamp Act of 1765

  • Quartering Act of 1765

  • Stamp Act Repealed

  • Declaratory Act

  • Townshend Revenue Act

  • The Boston Massacre

  • Townshend Revenue Acts Repealed

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • Intolerable Acts

  • Period: to

    The First Continental Congress

  • Concord first town to create Minutemen from Militia

  • Patrick Henry gives "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech

  • Paul Revere Rides to warn that the British are coming

  • Battles of lexington and concord

  • Benedict Arnold commissioned to Ft. Ticonderoga

  • The Second Continental Congress

  • The Continental Army is established

  • Battle of Bunker Hill - the most notorious battle

  • United States declares freedom from England

  • John Hancock was the only person to sign the Declaration of Independence on July 4th.

    The others signed in August

  • Declaration was signed

  • Hessians surprised and defeated at Trenton

  • Benedict Arnold resigns from Army, but George Washingto refuses it

  • Abigail Adams becomes First Lady

  • Battle of Saratoga at Freeman Farm

  • Battle of Saratoga at Bemis Heights

  • Benedict Arnold was shot in the leg

  • The French Alliance

  • The Continental Congress ratifies the Treaty of France

  • The Continental Congress Approves the Articles of Confederation

  • North Carolina ratifies the Articles of Confederation

  • Pennsylvania ratifies the Articles of Confederation

  • Georgia ratifies the Articles of Confederation

  • The Articles of Confederation Adopted

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Alexander Hamilton is elected to the continental congress

  • The Treaty of Paris is signed by Britain and America ending the war

  • US Constitution Ratified

  • George Washington becomes President

  • Martha Washington dies and is laid to rest next to husband

  • John Adams AND Thomas Jefferson die