Us history word cloud

1700-1800

  • 1704

    1704

    Privy Council : Regulating value of foreign coins according to silver content
  • 1705

    1705

    Virginia House of Burgesses
  • 1706

    Board of Trade
    Ordered royal governors to veto any paper issues
  • 1730

    1730

    Great Awakening Era
  • 1739

    Steno Rebellion Catholic governor of Florida Promised to fugitive slaves
  • 1751

    Parliament passed an act forbidding anyone from accepting as legal
    tender any paper money issued by New England colonies
  • 1754

    1754

    French and Idina War Begins
  • 1763

    End of French and Indian War
  • 1763

    Treaty of Paris
  • 1763

    Proclamation Line of 1763
    Honor promises made to
    Delaware and Iroquois
    “Forthwith to remove themselves
    from such settlements”
  • 1764

    Currency Act
  • 1765

    Sons of Liberty
    Stamp Act Congress, 1765
  • 1766

    Declaratory Act
  • 1767

    Townsend Duties
  • 1767

    Revenue Act
  • 1770

    1770

    Boston Massacre
  • 1773

    Tea Act
  • 1773

    Boston Tea Party
  • 1774

    First Continental Congress
  • 1775

    1775

    American Revolution Begins
  • 1775

    Battle of Lexington and Concord
  • 1776

    1776

    George Washington Crosses the Delaware
  • 1776

    Thomas Paine's Common Sense
  • 1776

    1776

    Declaration of Independence
  • 1777

    1777

    Articles of Confederation
  • 1783

    Treaty of Paris
  • 1784

    End of American Revolution
  • 1786

    Shays Rebellion
  • 1789

    1789

    George Washington Becomes 1 st U.S President