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Wilderness Road was created.
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Born into slavery.
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Potaic started an uprising at this time.
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Proclamation of 1763 started.
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Quartering Act was created to tax the colonist.
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The Stamp Act was created to tax the colonist
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Nine Colonies sent delegates to the a meeting in New York city.
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The Stamp Act was cancled from all of the protest.
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The Townshend Act was created.
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Boston Merchants went to court ot challenge the Townshed Act.
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Crispus Attucks was found in Massacusets.
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Samuel Adams organize a Commettee of Correspondence.
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The Tea Act was created to tax the colonist for tea.
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The Boston Tea Party happend.
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Sam Adams wrote "I wish we could arouse this contenent".
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The Intorlerable Acts where past to pusnish the colonists.
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Some colonists where preparing to fight the Brittish.
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The Conteinetal Congress gathered for the first time.
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Rhode Island and Connecticut restricted slave trade.
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The king orderderd the troops to Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts.
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Patrick Henry gave his famous speech.
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Spys where used on the Brittish.
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Fort Ticonderoga was attacked by a group of backwoodsmen.
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A pamphlet called Common Sense by Thomas Paine was written and published.
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Kentucky had 100 white settelers at this time.
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The Battle of Lexington happend.
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The Battle of Concord happend.
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The Revolutionary War began
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There was a second Continental Congress meeting.
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Washington and his officers left on horseback for Massachusetts.
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The Olive Branch Petition was sent to London.
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Richard Henry Lee presented several resolution for the Contental Congress to vote on.
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Mercy Otis Warren published a play called The Blockheads
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Continental Congress had begun work on a plan for a national government that would be a republic.
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Eache of the 13 colonies drew up new contitutions.
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The delegates thought that the government would rely on the goodness of people.
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Abigail Adams watched the Brittish leave.
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The Brittish left Boston.
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Congress becagan debating Lee's resolutions.
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The Declartion of Independence was written and signed.
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Genral William Howe put his plan in to action and attact Nova Scotia with the largest seaborn army ever launched.
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The Patriot troops rowed across the icy Delawar River and fought the Hessians.
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Genral Howe set out in the summer to take Philadelphia.
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Brittian had more than 100 war ships off of the American cost.
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Vermont banned slavery.
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Marquis de Lafayette volunteered to work with Washington's men
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The bitter winter of Vally Forge happend durring this time.
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France and America create and alliance to beat the Brittish.
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George Roger Clark talked to Virginia's governor to get funding to fight the British on the frontier.
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Clark traveld down the Ohio River ready to attack the British fort, Kaskaskia.
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Von Steuben came to Valley Fprge to help the Patriots become better fighters.
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Clark and his men set out from Kaskaskia to capture Vincennes.
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John Paul Jones left the French port in command of a small fleet of privateers.
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The twelve states ratified(approved) the articles in the confedration.
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General Bernardo de Galvez captured the British strongholds of Natchez and Baton Rouge in the lower Mississippi Valley.
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Benedict Arnold turned traitor and joined the Brittish.
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Baron de Kalb and his troops fought hard but they were defeated and this brough the Patriot spirits to a new low.
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There are 20,000 white settlers in Kentucky at this time.
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The Patriots slaughtered most of the Brittish forces making this the most bloodiest battles of the war.
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The Spanish went on to capture the british stronghold, Pensacola, West Florida.
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Paper money was outlawed durring this time.
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Lawmakers outlawed paper money.(sorry if this date is on twice....I just want to make sure I have it)
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Maryland ratified the Articles of Confederation. A new government was established.
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Cornwallis surrenderd to the Patriots.
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The last British troups in the colonies sailed away from New York city,
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The Treaty of Paris was created and signed.
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Some of the unpaid soldgers from the war mobed Congress.
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They pased and ordinance calling for the land to be suryeyed.
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Farmers protested in Massachusets also know as Shays' Rebellion.
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Shays and other followers went to Springfield to take wepons from the U.S.A. arsenal.
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Shays' Rebellion starts.
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Delegates from different states go to a convention in Annapolis, Maryland.
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Many delagates thought that the nation was in danger.
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The delegates at first thought that the government would rely on the goodness of people. Now their minds were changed they must make a better government.
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The Constitution appeared in newspapers accross the United States.
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Congress called for and convention so that they could revise the Articles of Confederation.
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The Constitution was created and signed.
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New Hamshire signed the constitution.
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Richard Allen started a methodist church for African Americans.
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The Supreme Court decided that segregation was constitutional.
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Supreme Court decided that segregation was now unconstitutional.
