-
End Of French And Indian War
The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War. The
French received all land from the Mississippi River west. while the British received all land from the Mississippi River east. -
Currency act
The Currency Act was the British band on printing colonial money in order to reduce British banker fears of being payed in the lose value currency of the colonists.The Currency act applied to all of the colonies. -
Sugar Act
The sugar act was the fist tax on the American Colonies, by the British Parliment.The Sugar act was a law that attempted to curb the smuggling. -
Quartering acts
The Quartering Act required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. -
The 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.Such as Legal documents,newspapers,licenses,and playing cards. -
The Townshend act
The Townshend act was,laws passed by the British government.They trook away some of the freedom that colonist. The took away Imports on paper,paint,led,glass,and tea. -
Boston Massacre
It was a deadly riot. It began as a street fight between American colonists and a lone British soldier. -
The Tea act
The Tea act give people the rights to ship tea directly to the companies,without landing in Engand before. -
Boston tea party
Protesting both a tax on tea [taxation without representation]Bostonians thinly disguised as colonists people boarded ships at anchor and dumped some $10,000 worth of tea into the river -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were five laws that were passed by the British Parliament against the American Colonies.The British passed these acts as punishment for the Boston Tea Party. -
The first Continental congress convens
Called by the Committees of Correspondence in response to the Intolerable Acts. -
Battles of Bunker Hill
The battle of Bunker Hill was part of the American siege of British-held Boston. Some 2,300 British troops eventually cleared the hill of the entrenched Americans. -
Paul Revere’s Ride and the battles of Lexington and Concord
In 1775, Paul Revere rode from Charlestown to Lexington to warn that the British were marching from Boston to kill the colonial army at Concord. The Total losses in the battles of Lexington and Concord were 273 British and more than 90 Americans -
Jefferson write the DOI
Thomas Jefferson drafted the DOI. John Adams made more changes later, and benjamin franklin. -
battle of Trent and New jersey
In the Battle of Trenton, Washington defeated a formidable garrison of Hessian mercenaries before withdrawing. -
Manumission
The release from slavery. -
Howe captures Philadelphia
The British captured Philadelphia. It was followed by the defeats at the Battle of Brandy wine and the Battle of the Clouds. The British general William Howe made Philadelphia the seat of continental congress. -
American and British Battle of Saratoga
The battle of Saratoga started the second year of the American Revolution. It included two battles, the battles were fought 18 days apart from each other. The Continental Army got the victory. -
state constitutions
Each of the colonies were urged by the Continental Congress to establish state constitutions.. -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles Of Confederation was the first written constitution of the United States. It was ratified March 1, 1781. The Articles Of Confederation named the new nation "The United States Of America". -
Winter at valley forge
George Washington Moved The Continental Army to Valley Forge.Washington’s army had defeats at Brandy wine, Pauli, and German town, Pennsylvania. The army was suffering from the coldness, hunger, and fatigue. -
John Paul Jones & Serapis
John Paul Jones won a fight against Serapis off the eastern coast of England. -
Spain Declares war on Great Britain
Spain’s King Charles The third would not consent to a treaty of alliance with the United States. The siege was an unsuccessful attempt by Spain and France to capture Gibraltar from the British during the American War of Independence. -
British forces capture Charles Town
It was the American's worst defeat. the British captured more than 3000 Patriots and a great number of guns and equipment, losing only 250 killed and wounded in the process. -
Treaty of Paris
The treaty of pairs ended the american revolutionary war. john Adams and John Jay negotiated the peace treaty with representatives of King George the third of Great Britain. -
Spain closed lower Mississippi River to American Western Settlers
Spain closed the navigation of the Mississippi to Americans. -
The Ordinance of 1785
was adopted by the United States Congress of the Confederation on May 20, 1785. It was a 6 mile square called a township. The township had 36 sections. Each section was one square mile. One square mile is equal to 640 acres. It was $1 per acre, surveyors paid $2 per mile. -
Convention
The point of the event was decided on how America was going to be governed. -
The North West Ordinance
The Northwest Ordinance adopted July 13, 1787, by the Confederation Congress. They listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory. -
Shays Rebellion
was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts in opposition to a debt crisis among the citizen and the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades. -
Land Act of 1800
people had the opportunity to buy land in the Northwest Territory directly from the federal government. The Harrison Land Act stated that people had to purchase at least 320 acres of land for a minimum of two dollars per acre.
