1700-1800

By noahtesser

  • Georgia Founded

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    French and Indian War

  • Proclamation Line of 1763

    American settlers could not move into the area the British had won in the French and Indian war

  • Currency Act

    British control colonial money

  • Sugar Act of 1764

    taxed sugar and molasses

  • Stamp Act

    Required a stamp on most paper documents, was the first direct tax on the Americans

  • Quartering Act

    Each colonial assembly had to provide for the basic needs of soldiers

  • Declaratory Act

    England had full power over the colonies

  • Boston Massacre

  • Tea Act

    Proposed to help save the East India Trading Company, gave them a monopoly on tea in the colonies

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Intolerable Acts

    Made in order to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party and made an example of them

  • First Continental Congress

    Declaration of Rights and Grievances

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    "First" battle of Revolutionary war
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    Revolutionary War

  • Second Continental Congress

    Formed Continental Army, Olive Branch Petition

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Saratoga

    Considered the turning point in the war

  • Battle of Yorktown

    The battle that basically ended the war

  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty between England and America to end the Revolutionary War

  • Constitutional Convention

    55 delegates met to create a new constitution for the US

  • Constitution Ratified

  • George Washington Elected President

  • Election of 1796

    John Adams elected President

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

    allowed the president to deport people they saw fit and also prevented people from speaking out against the government