Timeline #2

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  • Cotton Mather began smallpox inoculations in Massachusetts

    Cotton Mather began smallpox inoculations in Massachusetts

  • Molasses Act

    Molasses Act

  • Stono Slave rebellion in South Carolina

  • Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin

  • French and Indian War

  • Parliament issues the Proclamation of 1763

    Parliament issues the Proclamation of 1763

  • The Treaty of Paris ended the French & Indian War

  • Pontiac's Rebellion

  • Pinckney's Treaty signed

  • Quartering & Stamp Acts passed

  • Townshend Act passed

  • Boston Massacre

  • Gaspee incident in Rhode Island

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

  • Coercive/Intolerable Acts Passed

  • Cotton Mather began smallpox inoculations in Massachusetts

  • First Continental Congress drafted the Declaration of American Rights

  • Battles of Lexington & Concord

  • Period: to

    Boston occupied by British troops

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

  • Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense

  • Thomas Jefferson wrote The Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Saratoga

  • Cornwallis surrendered to Washington at Yorktown

  • Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War

  • Period: to

    Shay's Rebellion

  • Northwest Ordinance enacted

  • Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia

  • States ratified the Constitution

  • Bill of Rights adapted by Congress

    Bill of Rights adapted by Congress

  • Samuel Slater built a textile mill in America

  • First Bank of the United States chartered

  • Citizen Ghent Affair

  • Sugar & Currency Acts passed

  • Jay's Treaty

  • John Adams elected President

  • Alien & Sedition Acts passed

  • Virginia Resolution passed

  • Kentucky Resolution passed