World Studies Timeline

  • 1765

    1765
    In March it started the first direct tax for American colonies passed by English parliament to offset high British military cost start of the quartering act which means colonists to house British troops and supply them with food made by George Grenville
  • 1774

    1774
    Started the intolerable acts which was laws passed by british parliament which caused a group of colonist to issue for boycott
  • 1776

    1776
    One of the biggest documents Declaration of Independence which listed rights of speech and freedom was really big for independent colonists caused of complaints of 13 colonies signed by many people
  • 1781

    1781
    Battle of Yorktown also known as the revolutionary war took place in Yorktown and was the most important war because it ended the revolutionary wars led by George Washington
  • 1783

    1783
    Treaty of Paris where United States and Great Britain signed a treaty for independence which ended the war and gave United States complete independent made by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and John Jay
  • 1787

    1787
    On may 14 delegates in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania come together to make the constitution it was stating and showing how they were governing the states delegates voted George Washington to preside the constitution goes with Fraser we the people
  • 1790

    1790
    George Washington makes the state of union address in January this was the first one and it is a annual message beginning of each calendar year he did this after the revolutionary war to reign the structure of they’re country
  • 1791

    1791
    In December the new United States ratified the bill of rights and the first ten amendments and it listed the freedoms of people and the rights and can’t punishment unfairly it was made by James Madison