1700-1800 By facebooker_173697597679466 1705 The House of Burgesses passed the first slave code 1712 Slave Rebellion in New York Period: 1730 to 1760 The Great Awakening 1737 The Walking Purchase 1739 Stono Rebellion 1750 Slavery was made legal in every North American colony 1751 Currency Act 1 Period: 1754 to 1763 The Seven Years' War 1758 Quakers in Pennsylvania disowned members involved in slave trade 1763 Currency Act 2 1764 Sugar Act 1765 Stamp Act 1765 Townshend Acts Period: 1765 to 1766 Pontiac's War 1766 Sons of Liberty was formed in the colonies Mar 5, 1770 Boston Massacre 1773 Regulating Act 1773 Tea Act 1774 Boston Tea Party Sep 5, 1774 First Continental Congress convention Period: 1775 to 1783 The War for Independence Apr 19, 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill 1776 Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense Jul 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence from Britain Period: 1786 to 1787 Shays' Rebellion 1787 The Virginia Plan Guidelines for Constitution of United States 1787 Northwest Ordinance Period: 1787 to 1788 The Federalist Papers were published Jul 2, 1788 States ratified Constitution Period: 1789 to 1799 French Revolution Period: 1789 to 1797 Presidency of George Washington 1791 Ten amendments added to the Constitution Bill of Rights 1791 Congress approved a 20-year charter for the Bank of the United States Period: 1791 to 1804 Haitian Revolution 1794 Whiskey Rebellion Protest of the federal government's whiskey tax 1794 Jay's Treaty 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers 1794 Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin 1795 Treaty of Greenville Period: 1797 to 1801 Presidency of John Adams