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End of the French and Indian War
The Seven Years' War( French and Indian War) ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by France, Great Britain, and Spain. -
Pontiac's Rebellion
Pontiac's Rebellion was a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes, primarily from the Great Lakes region. -
Paxton Boys attack Pennsylvania Indians
The Paxton boys from the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania. They created a vigilante group to retaliate. against the local Indians. This was after the French and Indian War. -
Proclamation of 1763
At the end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation mainly intended to stop the indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. -
Sugar Act
It was a revenue-raising act passed by the British Parliament. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. -
Townshend Acts
It's a series of British Acts of Parliament that relate to the British in North American. -
Treaty of Fort Stanwix
It was a treaty between the Native Americans and the British to negotiate between Sir William Johnson and the representatives of the Six Nations. The treaty established a Line of Property following the Ohio River. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre has a major impact on relations between Britain and the American colonists. It further incensed colonists already weary of British rule and unfair taxation and roused them to fight for independence. -
Somerset Decision
It was the famous judgement of the Court of Kings's Bench, which help that chattel slavery was unsupported by the common law in England and Wales. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonist, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing "taxation without representation" and dumped 342 chests of British tea into the harbor. -
Tea Act
It was the last straw of a series of unpopular policies and taxed imposed by the British in the American Colonies. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Intolerable Acts
They were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament. The laws were meant to punish the colonist of Massachusetts for their act in the Tea Party protest.(The changes in taxes) -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay. -
Common Sense
Common Sense was written by Thomas Paine. It was advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
Second Continental Congress
a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting in 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They managed the colonial war effort and move incrementally towards independence. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The British had won the so-called Battle of Bunker Hill and Charlestown Peninsula fell into British control -
Declaration of Independence
Before the Revolution started, the Americans were fighting for their rights as subjects of the British King. When the Revolution started to flow, the rights movement grew and created the Declaration of Independence. -
Battle of Trenton
George Washington defeated a formidable garrison of Hessian mercenaries before withdrawing. -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation was the first written constitution of the United States. Under these articles, the states remained sovereign and independent, with Congress serving as the last resort on appeal of dispute. -
Battle of Saratoga
The two battles were the turning point in the American Revolutionary war. British General John Burgoyne got a costly victory, even though his troops were weakened. He again attacked at Bemis Heights and had a grave defeat. -
Treaty of Alliance
The Treaty of Alliance with France or Franco-American Treaty was a defensive alliance between France and the United States of America. -
Lord Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington
The British General, Charles Cornwallis, formally surrenders 8,000 British soldiers and seamen to a French and American force at Yorktown, Virginia, bringing an end to the American Revolution, -
Treaty of Paris (American Revolution)
It ended the American Revolutionary War between American and Great Britain. -
Newburgh Conspiracy
It was a planned military coup by the Continental Army when the American Revolutionary War ended. It was said that the members in the Congress of the Confederation circulated an anonymous letter in the army camp at Newburgh. -
Annapolis Convention
It was a national political convention the 12 delegates from 5 colonies to discuss and develop a consensus about reversing the protectionist trade barriers that each state had erected. -
Shays' Rebellion
The rebellion was a series of attacks at the courthouse and other government property in Massachusetts. The rebels were mostly ex-Revolutionary War soldiers turned farmers opposing state economic policies causing poverty and foreclosures. -
Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention in Philadephia was to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation. -
Northwest Ordinance
It was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States. It created the Northwest Territory, the first organized territory of the United States. -
The Federalist Papers Published
Its a collection of 85 Articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay. -
Election(Inauguration) of George Washington
The first inauguration of George Washington as the first president of the United States. -
Beginning of the French Revolution
King Louis XVI needed money and his financial situation was in a crisis. It forced him to put new land taxes that would hopefully solve his debt, but it didn't. Soon, the people of France would revolt against him. -
Hamilton's First Report on Public Credit
He delivered it to Congress and called for payment in full on all government debts as the foundation for establishing government credit. -
Washington DC chosen as the capital
The Capital of the United States has been a dynamic city with many high and lows in American history. -
Bill of Rights ratified
Following the ratification by the state of Virginia, the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution -
First Bank of the United States Chartered
It was the national bank, chartered for a term of twenty years by the United States Congress -
Hamilton's Report on Manufactures
It laid economic principles rooted in both the Mercantilism system of Elizabeth I and the practices of Jean-Baptiste Colbert. -
Citizen Genet Affair
It was an incident precipitated by the military adventurism of Citizen Edmond-Charles Genet, the minister to the United States. -
Battle of Fallen Timbers
It was the final battle of the Northwest Indian War. It was a struggle between Native American tribes affiliated with the Western Confederacy. -
Whiskey Rebellion
It was an uprising of farmers and distillers in the west Pennsylvania in protest of a whiskey tax act out by the federal government. -
Pinckney's Treaty
It was signed by San Lorenzo de El Escorial. It established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain. -
Treaty of Greeville
The treaty ended the Northwest Indian war in the Ohio country and limited Indian Country to strategic parcels of land to the north and west. -
Jay's Treaty
It was a treaty between the United States and Great Britain that averted the war, resolved issues remaining since the Treaty of Paris. -
Election of John Adams
John Adams was a Federalist from Massachusetts running for President. -
XYZ Affair
It was an incident between the French and the United States diplomats that resulted in a limited, undeclared war known as the Quasi-war. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
It was a series of laws known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts. The laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote. -
Quasi War with France
It was an undeclared war fought mostly at sea. After the France Crown was overturned during the French Revolutionary War, the United States refused to pay its large debt to France -
Election of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the 3rd President of the United States. -
Judiciary Act of 1800
It reduced the size of the Supreme Court from six justices to five and eliminated the justices' circuit duties.
