America 1700-1800

By James.P.Jones

  • Enlightenment & Great Awakening

  • Seven Years' War

  • Royal Proclimation of 1763

    England forbade colonists from settling West of Appalachian Mountains

  • Sugar Act

  • Currency Act

  • Stamp Act

    All things purchased had to be stamped as proof of purchase adding an additional tax to the product.

  • Anti-Stamp Act

    passed by the House of Burgesses as first step standing up against the British.

  • Townshend Act

    British created new customs duties on common items

  • Boston Massacre

  • Regulating Act

    All failing businesses would be put under government control according to England.

  • Tea Act

  • Tea Parties

    Dumping of British Tea into harbors around the colonies as a rebellion of the Tea Act

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Minute Men set up a barricade in the front of the town to help keep British military men out of the town.

  • Dunmore's Proclamation of 1775

    Any slaves of free black people who would leave their homes and join British forces were promised freedom after the war.

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Articles of Confederation

  • Virginia Plan

  • Ratification of Constitution

    The constitution was in full effect after getting majority vote.

  • George Washington Take Presidential Office

  • Bill of Rights

  • Shay's Rebellion