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Stamp Act
To help defray the cost of keeping troops in America, the British Parliament enacted the Stamp Act 1765, imposing a tax on many types of printed materials used in the colonies -
Stamp Act repealed
The British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act and issued the Declaratory Act, which asserted its "full power and authority to make laws and statutes... to bind the colonies and people of America... in all cases whatsoever." -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts, named for Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend, were passed by the British Parliament, placing duties on many items imported into America. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British,was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principal over objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
Sons of Liberty
The local Sons of Liberty published Association of the Sons of Liberty in New York. -
Boston Tea Party
A political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. Disguised as American Indians, the demonstrators destroyed an entire shipment of tea, which had been sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773. -
First Continental Congress
The Congress, to which twelve colonies sent delegates, met. -
Edenton Tea Party
he Edenton Tea Party was a political protest in Edenton, North Carolina, in response to the Tea Act, passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Inspired by the Boston Tea Party and the calls for tea boycotts and the resolutions of the first North Carolina Provincial Congress, 51 women, led by Penelope Barker, met on October 25, 1774, and signed a statement of protest vowing to give up tea and boycott other British products "until such time that all acts which tend to enslave our Native country sh -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.[9][10] They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. -
Second Continental Congress
was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War. -
Moores Creek Bridge
The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought near Wilmington, North Carolina on February 27, 1776. The victory of North Carolina Revolutionary forces over Southern Loyalists helped build political support for the revolution and increased recruitment of additional soldiers into their forces. -
Declaration of Independence
Second Continental Congress: The Congress approved the written United States Declaration of Independence. -
Battle of Fort Washington
The Battle of Fort Washington was fought in New York on November 16, 1776 during the American Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain. It was a decisive British victory that gained the surrender of the entire garrison of Fort Washington near the north end of Manhattan Island. -
France alliance
The Treaty of Alliance was signed with France. -
Battle of Guilford Courthouse
The Battle of Guilford Court House was a battle fought on March 15, 1781 in Greensboro, the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, during the American Revolutionary War. A 2,100-man British force under the command of Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis defeated Major General Nathanael Greene's 4,500 Americans. The British Army, however, sustained such heavy casualties that the result was a strategic victory for the Americans. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, ended the war. -
Constitution
The United States Constitution came into effect -
First President
George Washington was inaugurated as President in New York City. -
Bill of Rights
The United States Bill of Rights was ratified -
University of North Carolina
The University Of North Carolina opens -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 began. -
Burning of Washington
British troops burned Washington D.C. but were forced back at Baltimore. -
End of War
The Treaty of Ghent ended the war. -
Battle of New Orleans
The battle took place before notification of the Treaty of Ghent made it to the frontier. -
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was passed -
Trail of Tears
The forced removal of the Cherokee Nation from the Southeastern United States along the Trail of Tears led to over four thousand Native American deaths. -
Mexican American War
The war began -
Dred Scott Cases
A decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford declared that blacks were not citizens of the United States and could not sue. -
Lincoln is elected
United States presidential election, 1860: Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States. -
Soth Carolina Secedes
South Carolina Secedes from The United States. -
Confederate States of America
Ten more states seceded from the Union and established the Confederate States of America. -
American Civil War
The Civil War starts at Fort Sumter. -
First Battle of Bull Run
First Battle of Bull Run starts the first official battle of the war -
Battle of Hampton Roads
A naval battle between the Monitor and Merrimack took place. -
Robert E. Lee
General Robert E. Lee was placed in command of the Army of Northern Virginia. -
Battle of Antietam
also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in the rebel states. -
Siege of Vicksburg
The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate Army of Vicksburg led by Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. -
Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. -
Ulysses S. Grant
General Ulysses S. Grant was put in command of all Union forces. -
Sherman's March to the Sea
The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, on November 15 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21. -
Battle of Richmond
Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital, was captured by a corps of black Union troops -
Lee Surrenders
Lee surrendered to Grant at Appamatox Court House. -
Lincoln is Assassinated
Abraham Lincoln assassination: Lincoln was assassinated; Andrew Johnson became President. -
Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed, permanently outlawing slavery. -
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan was founded. -
Reconstruction begins
The Reconstruction era in the United States begins -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was passed. -
Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, second of the Reconstruction Amendments, was ratified. -
Woman Suffrage Association
Women's suffrage leaders Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association. -
Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed. -
Reconstruction Ends
The era of Reconstruction ends in the U.S. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age begins in America -
Gilded Age Ends
The Gilded Age in America ends -
Wimington Race Riot
Race riot starts in Wilmington NC, all blacks and republicans are forced out of the city. -
Ford Motor Company
The Ford Motor Company was formed. -
First Flight
The Wright brothers made their first powered flight in the Wright Flyer. -
Model T
The Ford Model T appeared on the market. -
Titanic
The RMS Titanic crashed into an iceberg in the northern Atlantic Ocean, sinking the ship entirely less than three hours the initial collision, killing over 1,500 of the 2,224 passengers aboard -
Seventeenth Amendment
The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, establishing direct election of Senators, was ratified -
Assembly Line
Henry Ford developed the modern assembly line. -
Great migration
The Great Migration begins in America -
World War I
Austria-Hungary invaded the Kingdom of Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; triggering the start of World War I. -
United States
The United States declared war on Germany, beginning the U.S.'s involvement in World War I. -
End of the war
The Treaty of Versailles ended the war. -
Roaring 20's
The roaring 20's begin in America -
radio broadcast
The first radio broadcasts were made, in Pittsburgh and Detroit. -
Prohibition
Prohibition outlaws alcohol in America -
19th Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, granting women the right to vote, was ratified. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Teapot Dome scandal: Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall resigned as a result of the scandal. -
Scopes Trial
High school teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, for teaching human evolution in the classroom
