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In Virginia, the House of Burgesses passes the first comprehensive slave code.
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Religious revival reforms religion in America, encourages individualism, and questions authority.
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A fraudulent deal marks the changing relationship between Pennsylvania and Delaware Natives.
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The largest slave insurrection in British North America. A violent reminder that slaves were willing to fight for freedom.
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John Locke's enlightenment philosophy that challenges authority spreads in North America.
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Slavery becomes legal in every colony.
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British victory brought about the fall of French Canada, the expansion of the British Empire which arose the need for increased taxation of colonies, and pushed the thirteen colonies politically closer.
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Quakers in Pennsylvania disowned members who engaged in the slave trade, the first colonial action against slavery.
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As King George III became the ruler of Britain, he represented an authoritarian vision of the British empire in which colonies would be subordinate to Britain.
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Violent conflict with Native Americans alters the British government's policy towards Indians.
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King George III forbids settlement west of the Appalachian mountains, sparking discontent among colonists hungry for land.
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The act cut the duty in half but enforced it by having smugglers tried by vice-admiralty courts rather than juries.
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The act restricted the use of paper money and, therefore, hampered intercolonial trade.
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The act becomes the first, direct tax on colonies, incentivizing resistance among colonists.
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The delegates asserted that colonists were entitled to the same rights as those in Britain and rejected taxation without representation.
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Formed as a reaction to the Stamp Act in order to direct and organize resistance among colonists.
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Although Britain repealed the Stamp Act, it asserted that it reserved Parliament's right to impose laws.
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The act creates new customs duties and was met with an increasingly coordinated resistance
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Philadelphia overtakes Boston as the center of colonial printing, due to the arrival of Benjamin Franklin and the wave of German immigrants.
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Generates sympathy for Boston and anger with Britain.
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Samuel Adams forms Committees of Correspondence to further communicate and coordinate resistance among the colonies.
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The act was met with an open rebellion that dumped all of the tea unto the sea and thus prompted a coercive response from Britain.
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The acts attempted to increase British control over the colonies through further restrictions.
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Sought to unite twelve states in a continental resistance of nonimportation, nonexportation, and nonconsumption.
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War breaks out in Lexington and Concord
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The first mass emancipation of enslaved people in American history, in a British attempt to gain slave allies for a war against the colonists.
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Robert Bell issues thousands of copies of Thomas Paine's Common Sense and its argument of the logical fallacy of the British empire.
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Continental Congress approves the public Declaration of Independence.
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American victory convinces the French to join the American Revolution against the British.
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Continental Congress ratifies the Articles of Confederation, which creates a weak federal government.
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American forces led by George Washington joined by French troops siege the army of General Cornwallis. It was the concluding victory of the war that marked the definitive independence of the United States.
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The rebellion proves the failure of the Articles of Confederation and the pressing need for a strong central government.
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Delegates meet to revise the Articles of Confederation and write a new constitution.
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Congress announced that the new Constitution was now in effect.
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Congress approved a twenty-year charter for the Bank of the United States, as proposed by Alexander Hamilton.
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The First Amendment proclaims no official national religion and guarantees religious liberty.
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The rebellion proves the power of the federal government to quell it and demonstrates that poor westerners viewed the government as their enemy.
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Haitian Revolution inspired free and enslaved black Americans in their struggle for freedom.
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After the debate between Federalists and Anti-Federalists for the ratifying of the constitution, the Bill of Rights is added to the Constitution.
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Eli Whitney’s cotton gin allows southern plantations to dramatically expand cotton production
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The treaty secures amity and commerce between the British and the United States. Debate over the agreement sparks the creation of Federalists and Republicans into temporary factions.
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The second presidential election marks the first peaceful transition of power within the government.
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Acts prevent French sympathizers from overthrowing the American government and attacked Americans who criticized Federalists.
