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Start 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." (Office of the Historian) -
Start of The Albany Congress
“...representatives from seven colonies met with 150 Iroquois Chiefs in Albany, New York. The purposes of the Albany Congress were twofold; to try to secure the support and cooperation of the Iroquois in fighting the French, and to form a colonial alliance based on a design by Benjamin Franklin." (Kindig) -
End of The Albany Congress
(continued) "The plan of union was passed unanimously. But when the delegates returned to their colonies with the plan, not a single provincial legislature would ratify it. Franklin's plan resembled the Articles of Confederation, and would have provided for coordinated taxation and militia forces to defend the frontiers.” (Kindig) -
End of The French and Indian War
The end of the French and Indian War allowed for Britain to shift its attention from battle to the Colonies. With this, the British government discovered the independent economic and political success overseas, and thus, seeked to use such to profit the British empire. -
Proclamation of 1763
Following Britain’s plan of profiting from the affairs overseas, the Proclamation of 1763 restricted the American Colonies from pursuing further Western colonization into previously French owned territory, thus establishing the belief that the British government was interfering with their right of expansion and was forcing the colonists to pay for unwanted military protection. -
The American Revenue Act of 1764 (The Sugar Act)
The Sugar Act was a modification of the Sugar and Molasses Act of 1733, which had required a payment of sixpence per gallon for the importation of molasses. The Sugar Act, however, reduced this payment to threepence, while also adding taxes on a series of many other goods, and thus, the enforcement on molasses declined the rum industry of the Colonies. Such impacted the colonial economy being that the amount of markets to which the colonists could sell reduced significantly, along with the amoun -
The Currency Act
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The Stamp Act
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The Townshend Revenue Act
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The Boston Massacre
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The Tea Act
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The Boston Tea Party
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Start of the Intolerable Acts
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End of the Intolerable Acts
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Start of The First Continental Congress
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The Association (prohibition of trade with Great Britain)
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Rejection of Galloway's Plan
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End of The First Continental Congress
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Patrick Henry's ("Give me liberty or give me death") Speech
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Battle of Lexington and Concord ("The shot heard 'round the world")
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The Second Continental Congress
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George Washington - Official Commander in Chief
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Battle of Bunker Hill
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Thomas Paine - Publication of "Common Sense"
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The Virginia Declaration of Rights
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The First Virginia Constitution
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Signing of The French Alliance
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The Tappan Massacre
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Adoption of The Articles of Confederation
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Signing of The Treaty of Paris
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Signing of The U.S. Constitution
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Adoption of The U.S. Constitution
With the ratification of New Hampshire,