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End Of The French And Indian War
British America against New France. Both sides were supported by military units from their countries, as well as by American Indian allies. -
Pontiac's Rebellion
Was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes, primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country who were dissatisfied with British postwar policies in the Great Lakes region after the British victory in the French and Indian War. -
Paxton Boys Attack Pennsylvania Indians
On December 14, 1763, about 57 drunken settlers from Paxton, Pennsylvania, slaughtered 20 innocent and defenseless Susquehannock (Conestoga) Indians, near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, whom they suspected of connivance with other Native Americans who had been pillaging and scalping. -
Proclamation Of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. -
Sugar Act
a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on 5 April 1764. -
Stamp Act
An act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Townshend Acts
A series of British Acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 and relating to the British in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program -
Treaty Of Fort Stanwix
A treaty between Native Americans and Great Britain, signed in 1768 at Fort Stanwix, in present-day Rome, New York. It was negotiated between Sir William Johnson, his deputy George Croghan, and representatives of the Six Nations (the Iroquois). -
Boston Massacre
Was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed five people while under attack by a mob. -
Somerset Decision
Somerset v Stewart 98 ER 499 is a famous judgment of the Court of King's Bench in 1772, which held that chattel slavery was unsupported by the common law in England and Wales, although the position elsewhere in the British Empire was left ambiguous. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dumped crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act and its provisions for taxation of tea. -
Tea Act
An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the financially struggling company survive. -
First Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws punished the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods. -
Battle Of Bunker Hill
was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which was peripherally involved in the battle. -
Treaty Of Alliance
An alliance between France and the United States of America, formed in the midst of the American Revolutionary War. Promised mutual military support in case fighting should break out between French and British forces. -
Battles Of Lexington and Concord
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge. -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. -
Second Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia between September 5, 1774, and October 26, -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence. -
Battle Of Trenton
The Battle of Trenton was a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War which took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey. Washington defeated a formidable garrison of Hessian mercenaries before . -
Articles Of Confederation
the original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789. Was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution. -
Battle Of Saratoga
Marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. -
Lord Cornwallis Surrendered to George Washington
The surrender of the British army at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, which ended the last major campaign of the Revolutionary War. ... After American and French troops overran two British strongholds, Cornwallis surrendered on October 19, 1781. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain, that ended the American Revolutionary War. -
Newburgh Conspiracy
Appeared to be a planned military coup by the Continental Army in March 1783, when the American Revolutionary War was at its end. -
Annapolis Convention
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the commercial problems besetting the United States under the Articles of Confederation. -
Shays' Rebellion
An armed uprising in Massachusetts, American Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels in a protest against perceived economic and civil rights injustices. -
Constitutional Convention
A gathering for the purpose of writing a new constitution or revising an existing constitution. Members of a constitutional convention (sometimes referred to as "delegates" to a constitutional convention) are often, though not necessarily or entirely, elected by popular vote. -
Northwest Ordinance
Chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory. -
The Federalists Papers Published
A collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution. John Jay wrote 5, James Madison wrote 29, and Alexander Hamilton write 51. -
Beginning of the French Rebellion
A period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799. Partially carried forward by Napoleon -
Election (Inauguration) of George Washington
The first inauguration of George Washington as the first President of the United States was held on Thursday, April 30, 1789 on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City, New York. The inauguration marked the commencement of the first four-year term of George Washington as President. -
Washington DC chosen as the capital
Founded in 1790, the nation's capital has been a dynamic city with plenty of highs and lows to match its place in American history. -
Hamilton's First Report on Public Credit
Delivered to Congress on January 9, 1790, called for payment in full on all government debts as the foundation for establishing government credit. -
First Bank of the United States Chartered
Chartered for a term of twenty years, by the United States Congress on February 25, 1791. It followed the Bank of North America, the nation's first de facto central bank. -
Whiskey Rebellion
A tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington. -
Hamilton's Report on Manufactures
the third major report, and magnum opus, of American founding father and first U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. It was presented to Congress on December 5, 1791. -
Bill of Rights Ratified
These 12 were approved on September 25, 1789 and sent to the states for ratification. The 10 amendments that are now known as the Bill of Rights were ratified on December 15, 1791, which became a part of the Constitution. -
Citizen Genet Affair
Incident precipitated by the military adventurism of Citizen Edmond-Charles Genêt, a minister to the United States dispatched by the revolutionary Girondist regime of the new French Republic. -
Jay's Treaty
A 1795 treaty between the United States and Great Britain that averted war, resolved issues remaining since the Treaty of Paris of 1783. The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America -
Battle of Fallen Timbers
The final battle of the Northwest Indian War, a struggle between Native American tribes affiliated with the Western Confederacy, including support from the British led by Captain Alexander McKillop, against the United States for control of the Northwest Territory -
Pinckney's Treaty
was signed in San Lorenzo de El Escorial on October 27, 1795 and established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain. -
Treaty of Greenville
May refer to one or two treaties at Fort Greenville, now Greenville, Ohio. The first was signed on August 3, 1795, following the Native American loss at the Battle of Fallen Timbers a year earlier. -
Election of John Adams
presidential election of 1796 was the third quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Friday, November 4 to Wednesday, December 7, 1796. -
XYZ Affair
A diplomatic incident between French and United States diplomats that resulted in a limited, undeclared war known as the Quasi-War. U.S. and French negotiators restored peace with the Convention of 1800, also known as the Treaty of Mortefontaine. -
Quasi-War with France
An undeclared war fought almost entirely at sea between the United States and France from 1798 to 1800. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
A series of laws that were passed by the Federalist Congress in 1798 and signed into law by President Adams. These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote. -
Election of Thomas Jefferson
The fourth United States presidential election. It was held from Friday, October 31 to Wednesday, December 3, 1800. -
Judiciary Act of 1800
Reduced the size of the Supreme Court from six justices to five and eliminated the justices' circuit duties. To replace the justices on circuit, the act created sixteen judgeships for six judicial circuits.
