AMERICAN REVOLUTION

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  • END OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR

  • ROYAL PROCLAMATION

    establishes administration in territories newly ceded by France. To prevent further violence between settlers and Native Americans, the Proclamation sets a western boundary on the American colonies

  • LORD NORTH BECOMES PRIME MINISTER OF THE GREAT BRITAIN

  • Battle of Alamance in North Carolina

  • Dunmore's War

  • The First Continental Congress

  • The Second Continental Congress meets

  • Battle of Long Island, a.k.a. Battle of Brooklyn

  • New Hampshire ratifies the first state constitution

  • Two Battles of Saratoga

    (September 19 and October 7) conclude with the surrender of the British army under General Burgoyne.

  • Battle of Springfield

  • The British government officially, yet informally, recognizes American independence.

  • The Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolutionary War

  • George Washington is inaugurated as President in New York

  • Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

    becomes the 13th state to ratify the Constitution, with a vote of 34–32