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Pontiac's Rebellion
The colonists were also expected to pay a tax to pay the costs of establishing the borders of the Proclamation Line which led to the belief that the King had sided with the Indians despite and against the interests of the settlers. This contributed to the causes of the American Revolution. -
Paxton Boys attack Pennsylvania Indians
attack by Pennsylvania frontiersmen upon an Indian settlement during the Pontiac Indian uprising and the subsequent events related to the attack. -
End of the French and Indian War
The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act or the American Duties Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain. -
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. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of British Acts of Parliament passed and relating to the British in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program -
Treaty of Fort Stanwix
a treaty between Native Americans and Great Britain, signed at Fort Stanwix, in present-day Rome, New York. It was negotiated between Sir William Johnson, his deputy George Croghan, and representatives of the Six Nations -
Boston Massacre
A street fight that occurred between a "patriot" mob, throwing stones and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Somerset Decision
Somerset v Stewart 98 ER 499 is a famous judgment of the Court of King's Bench, which held that chattel slavery was unsupported by the common law in England and Wales, although the position elsewhere in the British Empire was left ambiguous. -
Tea Act
the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. The policy ignited a “powder keg” of opposition and resentment among American colonists and was the catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
Both the British and American responses to the actions that followed the tea party. The British were furious with the actions of the colonists and needed to impose a “punishment”? for their rebellion. This came in the form of the Intolerable Acts. -
First Continental Congress
Which was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes. -
Intolerable Acts
punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party. ... In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
They were the first battles of the Revolutionary War. They happened because the British commander in Boston had heard of supplies of powder and weapons being kept by Patriots in the towns of Lexington and Concord. -
Second Continental Congress
a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Treaty of Alliance
A defensive alliance between France and the United States of America, formed in the midst of the American Revolutionary War, which promised mutual military support in case fighting should break out between French and British forces, -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Fought during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. The British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. The colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against the enemy, and the battle provided them with an important confidence boost. -
Common Sense
Writer Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence. Although little used today, pamphlets were an important medium for the spread of ideas in the 16th through 19th centuries. -
Battle of Trenton
General George Washington's army crossed the icy Delaware on Christmas Day and, over the course of the next 10 days, won two crucial battles of the American Revolution. -
Declaration of Independence
It contains the ideals or goals of our nation. It contains the complaints of the colonists against the British king. It contains the arguments the colonists used to explain why they wanted to be free of British rule. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War.The scope of the victory is made clear by a few key facts: 5,895 British and Hessian troops surrendered their arms. -
Articles of Confederation
the original constitution of the US -
Lord Cornwallis Surrendered to George Washington
General Cornwallis brought 8,000 British troops to Yorktown. The British ships never arrived. That was lucky for General George Washington and the Continental army. -
Newburgh Conspiracy
The Newburgh Conspiracy was what appeared to be a planned military coup by the Continental Army, when the American Revolutionary War was at its end. -
Treaty of Paris (American Revolution)
The American Revolutionary War was formally ended. The British acknowledged the independence of the United States. The colonial empire of Great Britain was destroyed in North America. -
Annapolis Convention
A meeting called by the state of Virginia held in Annapolis, Maryland, to which all 13 states were asked to send delegates. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the commercial problems besetting the United States under the Articles of Confederation. -
Shay's Rebellion
an armed uprising in Massachusetts, mostly in and around Springfield. American Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels in a protest against perceived economic and civil rights injustices. -
Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation. -
Northwest Ordinance
adopted by the Second Continental Congress, chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory. -
The Federalist Papers Published
a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution. -
Election (Inauguration) of George Washington
The first inauguration of George Washington as the first President of the United States was held on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City, New York. ... Chancellor of New York Robert Livingston administered the presidential oath of office. -
Beginning of the French Revolution
a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies. It was partially carried forward by Napoleon during the later expansion of the French Empire. -
Washington DC chosen as the Capital
Once the site for the new capital was selected, President Washington retained Pierre Charles L'Enfant, a French engineer and former officer in the Continental Army, to design and lay out the new capital city. -
Hamilton's first report on public credit
called for payment in full on all government debts as the foundation for establishing government credit. -
First Bank of the US Chartered
The First Bank of the United States was needed because the government had a debt from the Revolutionary War, and each state had a different form of currency. It was built while Philadelphia was still the nation's capital. -
Whiskey Rebellion
a tax protest in the United States during the presidency of George Washington, ultimately under the command of Revolutionary war veteran Major James McFarlane. -
Hamilton's Report on Manufacturers
The Report on the Subject of Manufactures, generally referred to by its shortened title Report on Manufactures, is the third major report, and magnum opus, of American founding father and first U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. -
Bill of Rights Ratified
These 12 were approved on September 25, 1789 and sent to the states for ratification. The 10 amendments that are now known as the Bill of Rights. -
Citizen Genet Affair
incident precipitated by the military adventurism of Citizen Edmond-Charles Genêt, a minister to the United States dispatched by the revolutionary Girondist regime of the new French Republic, which at the time was at war with Great Britain and Spain. -
Battle of Fallen Timbers
the final battle of the Northwest Indian War, a struggle between Native American tribes affiliated with the Western Confederacy, including support from the British led by Captain Alexander McKillop, against the United States for control of the Northwest Territory -
Treaty of Greenville
may refer to one or two treaties at Fort Greenville, now Greenville, Ohio. The first was signed, following the Native American loss at the Battle of Fallen Timbers a year earlier. -
Jay's Treaty
The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, commonly known as the Jay Treaty, and also as Jay's Treaty, was a treaty between the United States and Great Britain that averted war, resolved issues remaining since the Treaty of Paris of 1783 -
Pinckney's Treaty
also commonly known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo or the Treaty of Madrid, was signed in San Lorenzo de El Escorial and established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain. -
Election of John Adams
The United States presidential election of 1796 was the third quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Friday, November 4 to Wednesday, December 7, 1796. -
XYZ Affair
a diplomatic incident between French and United States diplomats that resulted in a limited, undeclared war known as the Quasi-War. U.S. and French negotiators restored peace with the Convention of 1800, also known as the Treaty of Mortefontaine. -
Quasi-War with France
The Quasi-War was an undeclared war fought almost entirely at sea between the United States and France -
Alien and Sedition Acts
A series of laws known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by the Federalist Congress and signed into law by President Adams. These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote. -
Judiciary act of 1801
reduced the size of the Supreme Court from six justices to five and eliminated the justices' circuit duties. To replace the justices on circuit, the act created sixteen judgeships for six judicial circuits. -
Election of Thomas Jefferson
In what is sometimes referred to as the "Revolution of 1800", Vice President Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party defeated incumbent President John Adams of the Federalist Party. The election was a realigning election that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican rule.
