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1685 BCE
Enlightenment 1685-1815
During the 17th and 18th centuries, Europe saw a development of new ideas for the rights of the people and their relationship to their rulers. John Locke influenced the american beliefs in self government and he is also a enlightenment philosopher. This period encouraged thinkers to use science and math to explain the acts of nature. -
John Locke writes the Two Treaties of Governmet
John Locke wrote a social contract that was for all people with original power that they can consent to enter the social contract among themselves to form a government to protect their rights. The second treaty is about laws people accept because of public good and state of nature. -
The French and Indian War
The French and Indian war started when the Virginians built fort on present day Pittsburgh. The French, took the considering this area their territory, that drove off the Native Americans. These events contributed to the start of the French and Indian war. -
The Treaty of Paris 1763
The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War. It granted Canada and all French holdings east of the Mississippi River except New Orleans to the British. -
Pontiac's Rebellion 1763-1766
This was a war that was wagered by the Indians in the great lakes region against the Britain rule after the French and Indian war. The Indian tribes were mad that the British because they were taking over there traditional land. -
The Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 is a act that prohibited the people in the settlement from going west of the Appalachian Mountains. The British empire began to take control over the colonies. -
The Stamp Act
The stamp act was imposed in 1765, it was a tax on legal documents. It required all of the colonist to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper that they used. -
The Quartering Acts
It stated that Great Britain would house the soldiers with american barracks. This is when the colonist were required to share your house and make food for you/your family and with the soldiers when they come to your house. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act congress is the first congress of the American Colonies.It was a meeting in New York City with representatives from the British colonies. -
The Townshend Acts
It was named after Charles Townshend. It was a series of acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain related to the British Colonies. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre is when the citizens were throwing rocks and snowballs at the soldiers because the soldiers took the jobs away from the docks where the people made the most money from. -
Boston Tea Party
A raid on three british ships in Boston Harbor. Boston colonists were disguised as Indians and threw hundreds of barrels of tea in the harbor as a protest. -
Coercive Acts
The coercive act was a series of four act's that was made by the British government like expanding the quartering act and limiting the self government in Massachusetts. The coercive act was meant to punish the British for the tea party because they threw all of the tea in the water since they took all of the good paying jobs away. -
The First continental congress
They met in the Philadelphia, all of the colonies had sent a representative but Georgia didn't. All of the colonies acted together for the first time. -
The Second Continental Congress
It was a convention with delegates from the Thirteen colonies and it declared that the American Revolutionary war had begun. The managed the colonial war and moved toward Independence and adopting the US declaration of independence and Georgia was apart of this congress. -
Minutemen
This is when Massachusetts declared a war against the British soldiers. A British general ordered there men to get weapons in Concord. The minutemen found out that the British solders were coming so they waited for them, the minutemen were out numbered, so they backed down and heard a gun shot. -
Lexington and Concord
Minutemen and British Troops met at Lexington, Massachusetts. This is also when Paul Revere said that "The British are coming the British are coming!" to warn the people that they should go a different way to Lexington. -
Thomas Paine writes Common Sense
The pamphlet challenged the King of England's rule of the colonies, it made the colonial people angry from the parliament to the crown. Was the first work that openly ask great Britain for independence. -
Declaration of Independence
A formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point for the american's. After the american's won the battle, Benjamin Franklin negotiated a treaty of alliance with France. When the American won this made the French government recognized the colonist and entered the war as there ally. -
Beginning of French involvement in the American Revolution (Treaty of Alliances)
The alliance was promised a military support a case of a break out between the French and British. A alliance between France and the U.S.The British surrendered to the French in the Battle of Yorktown. -
Battle of Yorktown
This is when General Cornwallis surrendered because he was surrounded by the American and the French. The Americans help give troops/soldiers to the French army and Navy for this battle. This is also the last battle of the revolutionary war. -
Benjamin Franklin and the Treaty of Paris
This was negotiated between the U.S. and Great Britain. It ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence.
