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Jamestown Founded
First Permanent English Settlement in what is now the United States. -
Virginia House of Burgesses
First form of Representatives Colonies. -
Mayflower Compact
First written framework of goverment in what is now in the United States.
Written by Puritains and pilgrims to establish order in the colony of Plymouth. -
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
Fundamental Orders of Conneticut powerful sermon on the text that "the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people." -
French and Indian War
Indians did not like how french kapt moving into Indian land so the Indians attacked and caused a war. -
Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation, in effect, closed off the frontier to colonial expansion. The King and his council presented the proclamation as a measure to calm the fears of the Indians, who felt that the colonists would drive them from their lands as they expanded westward. -
Currency Act
The Currency Act is the name of several Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America. -
Stamp Act
An act by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Quartering Act
An act were their families to provide food, fuel, transportation and ect to the British troops. The troops could come inside with out owners permission. -
Townshend Act
The act that placed duties on tea, paper, lead, paint, etc., imported into the American colonies. -
Boston Massacre
An event were civilians were putting mad in front of British troops and they felt threaten so British troops shot five civilians. -
Tea Act
An act were tea that was bought and sent to the colonies had to pay for shipping. -
Boston Tea Party
Were a Group called the "Sons of Liberity" were drunk and dressed up as Indians and tossed the shipping of tea into see that was around a Million dollers. -
Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)
An act attempt to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. -
1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies (Georgia was not present) that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts (also known as Intolerable Acts by the Colonial Americans) by the British Parliament. -
2nd Continental Congress
It consisted of delegates from twelve colonies, excluding Georgia. The Second Continental Congress is perhaps most known for adopting the Declaration of Independence. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The battle of Lexington was the first battle and which the lost badly. The battle of Concord is which the U.S attack British by supprise and won. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration Of Independence signed and agreed that America was seperated from Britain and are Independent. -
Battle of Saratoga
A British army of nearly 7,000 surrendered today to a combined force of American militia and Continental regulars.It shows French government would now seriously consider entering the conflict on the American side. -
Valley Forge
Washington takes his army in the cold valley, while in the trip some died by natraul causes, the rest were stronger and survived. -
Articles of Confederation Written
It was the first sorta like constitution written. -
Battle of Yorktown
The surrender of the British army at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1781, ended the major military hostilities of the Revolutionary War, but sporadic fighting, mostly in the south and west, continued for more than a year. Which caused the Independence of America. -
Treaty of Paris of 1763
The treaty established generous boundaries for the United States: U.S. territory would extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River in the west, and from the Great Lakes and Canada in the north to the thirty-first parallel in the south. Even represented that Britain will not attack America. -
Constitutional Convention
The convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 -
Great Compromise
Was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution -
3/5 Compromise
-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and would be able to vote. -
Constitution Written
The constitution was written and caused Bill Of Rights. -
Washington Takes Office
Washington gets elected as first president and would be as king but regected it. -
Bill of Rights
Rights of the people nobody can take away but rights that are called Amendments. -
Whiskey Rebellion
A rebeliiom were farmers get mad because of the main source (whiskey) of money is stopped because of debt. -
Jay’s Treaty
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Adams Takes Office
Adam is the 2nd president elected of the United States and is first to live in The White House. -
XYZ Affair
Were U.S sends 3 secret agents to France to solve problem of why French is mad. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
Were acts upon immigrants can be an actual civilian by living there for 13 years. -
Quasi War Begins
Was an undeclared war fought mostly at sea between the United States and the French Republic from 1798 to 1800. -
Jefferson Takes Office
Thomas Jefferson, the person who wrote the Decleration of Independence, is now the 3rd president of the U.S. -
Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson tricks and gets cheap land from France without permission from goverment. It expends the land westward greatly. -
Marbury v. Madison
A trail were murbury gets mad because Madison subbosably didnt send papers of approval to be in office but Murbury wins. -
McCulloch v. Maryland
The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland. -
Gibbons v. Ogden
Thye companies Gibbons and Ogden compete in a trial to see who gets to ship resources in the same river.
