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Jan 15, 1175
Wilderness Road
Wilderness Road was created. -
Crispus Attucks
Born into slavery. -
Uprising
Potaic started an uprising at this time. -
Proclamtion of 1763
Proclamation of 1763 started. -
Quarting Act
Quartering Act was created to tax the colonist. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was created to tax the colonist -
Nine Colonies
Nine Colonies sent delegates to the a meeting in New York city. -
Cancled
The Stamp Act was cancled from all of the protest. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Act was created. -
Boston Merchants
Boston Merchants went to court ot challenge the Townshed Act. -
Found
Crispus Attucks was found in Massacusets. -
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams organize a Commettee of Correspondence. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was created to tax the colonist for tea. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party happend. -
Wish
Sam Adams wrote "I wish we could arouse this contenent". -
Intorlerable Acts
The Intorlerable Acts where past to pusnish the colonists. -
Colonist
Some colonists where preparing to fight the Brittish. -
Continetal Congress
The Conteinetal Congress gathered for the first time. -
Slave trade
Rhode Island and Connecticut restricted slave trade. -
Troops
The king orderderd the troops to Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. -
Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry gave his famous speech. -
Spy
Spys where used on the Brittish. -
Fort Ticonderoga
Fort Ticonderoga was attacked by a group of backwoodsmen. -
Commons Sense
A pamphlet called Common Sense by Thomas Paine was written and published. -
Settlers
Kentucky had 100 white settelers at this time. -
Battle of Lexington
The Battle of Lexington happend. -
The Battle of Concord
The Battle of Concord happend. -
Revolutionary War
The Revolutionary War began -
Continental Congress
There was a second Continental Congress meeting. -
Gerorge Washington
Washington and his officers left on horseback for Massachusetts. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was sent to London. -
Richard Henry Lee
Richard Henry Lee presented several resolution for the Contental Congress to vote on. -
The Blockheads
Mercy Otis Warren published a play called The Blockheads -
National Government
Continental Congress had begun work on a plan for a national government that would be a republic. -
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New Contitutions
Eache of the 13 colonies drew up new contitutions. -
Goodness of People
The delegates thought that the government would rely on the goodness of people. -
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams watched the Brittish leave. -
Leaving Boston
The Brittish left Boston. -
Debating
Congress becagan debating Lee's resolutions. -
Declartion of Independence
The Declartion of Independence was written and signed. -
Genral William Howe
Genral William Howe put his plan in to action and attact Nova Scotia with the largest seaborn army ever launched. -
Delaward River
The Patriot troops rowed across the icy Delawar River and fought the Hessians. -
Philadelphia
Genral Howe set out in the summer to take Philadelphia. -
War ships
Brittian had more than 100 war ships off of the American cost. -
Banned
Vermont banned slavery. -
Marquis de Lafayette
Marquis de Lafayette volunteered to work with Washington's men -
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Vally Forge
The bitter winter of Vally Forge happend durring this time. -
Alliance
France and America create and alliance to beat the Brittish. -
Geroge Rodgers Clark
George Roger Clark talked to Virginia's governor to get funding to fight the British on the frontier. -
Ohio River
Clark traveld down the Ohio River ready to attack the British fort, Kaskaskia. -
Von Steuben
Von Steuben came to Valley Fprge to help the Patriots become better fighters. -
Vincennes
Clark and his men set out from Kaskaskia to capture Vincennes. -
John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones left the French port in command of a small fleet of privateers. -
Ratified
The twelve states ratified(approved) the articles in the confedration. -
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Captured
General Bernardo de Galvez captured the British strongholds of Natchez and Baton Rouge in the lower Mississippi Valley. -
Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold turned traitor and joined the Brittish. -
Baron de Kalb
Baron de Kalb and his troops fought hard but they were defeated and this brough the Patriot spirits to a new low. -
Settlers
There are 20,000 white settlers in Kentucky at this time. -
Battle of Kings Moutain
The Patriots slaughtered most of the Brittish forces making this the most bloodiest battles of the war. -
Pensacola
The Spanish went on to capture the british stronghold, Pensacola, West Florida. -
Paper Money
Paper money was outlawed durring this time. -
Paper Money
Lawmakers outlawed paper money.(sorry if this date is on twice....I just want to make sure I have it) -
Estsblished
Maryland ratified the Articles of Confederation. A new government was established. -
Surrender
Cornwallis surrenderd to the Patriots. -
Go away
The last British troups in the colonies sailed away from New York city, -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was created and signed. -
Mob
Some of the unpaid soldgers from the war mobed Congress. -
Ordinace
They pased and ordinance calling for the land to be suryeyed. -
Shays' Rebellion
Farmers protested in Massachusets also know as Shays' Rebellion. -
Springfield
Shays and other followers went to Springfield to take wepons from the U.S.A. arsenal. -
The Start Of Rebellion
Shays' Rebellion starts. -
Delegates Meet
Delegates from different states go to a convention in Annapolis, Maryland. -
Danger
Many delagates thought that the nation was in danger. -
Changed Minds
The delegates at first thought that the government would rely on the goodness of people. Now their minds were changed they must make a better government. -
Word was out
The Constitution appeared in newspapers accross the United States. -
Revisions
Congress called for and convention so that they could revise the Articles of Confederation. -
Constitution
The Constitution was created and signed. -
New Hamshire
New Hamshire signed the constitution. -
Richard Allen
Richard Allen started a methodist church for African Americans. -
Segregation
The Supreme Court decided that segregation was constitutional. -
Not Any More
Supreme Court decided that segregation was now unconstitutional.
