1750-1785

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  • Albany Congress

  • 7 years war began in Europe

  • William Pitt becomes Prime Minister

  • Proclamation of 1763 creates "Indiand Country"

  • Sugar Act

  • Stamp Act and Stamp Act Congress

  • Declartory Act

  • Townshend and Revenue Acts

  • Boston Massacre

  • First Committee of Correspondence

  • Tea Act

    1773

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Intolerable Acts

  • First Continental Congress

  • Fighting begins at Lexington and Concord

  • Second Continental Congress

  • Thomas Paine's "{Common Sense"

  • Declaration of Independence

  • France reconizes American Independence

  • Battle of Saratoga

  • Washington's troops settle at Valley Forge

  • France enters American Revolution

  • Spain enters American Revolution

  • Articles of Confederation

  • Peace talks begin

  • British evacuate New York

  • Washington mediates issue of officer pensions

  • Treaty of PAris is signed

  • Treaty of Fort Stanwix

  • Post-war depression begins

  • Land Ordinance of 1785