America 1700-1800 By abdaniel Period: 1715 to 1716 Yamasee War Battles between several Indian tribes and British colonists in South Caroline 1716 First theater in colonies 1718 New Orleans 1718 Blackbeard killed Period: 1730 to 1755 1st Great Awakening 1732 George Washington born 1732 Georgia 1732 Poor Richard's Almanac Period: 1744 to 1748 King George's War 1752 Electricity & Benjamin Franklin Period: 1754 to 1763 French and Indian War 1757 Fort William Henry 1764 The Sugar Act 1767 Townshend Acts 1770 Boston Massacre 1770 Boston Massacre 1770 Spain finds Monterey, California 1772 HMS Gaspee 1773 Boston Tea Party 1773 Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One 1774 First Continental Congress 1774 Lord Dunmore's War 1774 Port of Boston closed 1774 Intolerable Acts 1775 Paul Revere's ride Period: 1775 to 1783 American Revolution 1776 Declaration of Independence 1776 Common Sense 1776 First Submarine Attack 1777 First flag of America 1777 Articles of Confederation 1778 Valley Forge 1778 Friedrich von Steuben 1779 Bonhomme Richard defeats the Serapis 1781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown 1782 Bald Eagle national bird 1782 British troops begin to leave U.S. 1783 Great Britain acknowledges American independence 1784 Rhode Island Emancipation Act 1786 Shays's Rebellion 1786 Treaty of Hopewell 1789 U.S. Constitution ratified 1789 George Washington elected president 1789 Supreme Court created Period: 1790 to 1840 2nd Great Awakening 1791 Bill of Rights ratified 1791 Vermont 1791 Steamboat patented 1792 New York Stock Exchange 1792 U.S. Executive Mansion (White House) 1792 Kentucky 1793 Washington's second term starts 1793 Capital building 1794 Cotton Gin 1794 Whiskey Rebellion 1795 11th Amendment 1796 Tennessee 1797 John Adams elected president 1799 George Washington dies 1800 U.S. population 5.3M