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The first of the military engagements of the revolutionary war
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The British issued a proclamation after the French and Indian war, primarily to conciliate he Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers upon their land
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Chief Pontiac led loosely united group of American Indian tribes against the British in a serious of attacks.
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The Seven Year's war was a global conflict and it ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by France, Great Britain, and Spain.
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57 drunken settlers from Paxton, Pennsylvania slaughtered 20 innocent Indians who they suspected of connivance with other Native Americans.
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The British Parliament passed a revenue-raising act that required merchants to pay a tax of six pence per gallon of the importation of foreign molasses.
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First internal tax levied directly on American colonist by the British government.
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A series of British Acts of the Parliament that were related to the British in North America.
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A treaty signed between Native Americans and Great Britain
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A deadly riot in Boston that resulted in 5 deaths and 6 people injured. It started with an argument between British Private Hugh White and a few colonist.
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British court dealt with a case where James Somerset was forcibly taken from England to the colonies.
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A political protest in Massachusetts where American colonists who were angry at Britain for imposing "taxation without representation", dumped 342 chests of British tea into the harbor.
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The Tea Act was a catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. The policy ignited a "powder keg" of opposition and resentment among American colonists.
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Punitive laws that were passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party.
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A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies who met a Carpenter's Hall in Pennsylvania (early in the American Revolution).
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A war fought in the beginning stages of the American Revolutionary War in Massachusetts where the British won against the Americans. This left Breed's Hill and the Charlestown Peninsula under British control.
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A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that advocated independence from Great Britain to people in the thirteen colonies
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A convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that formed in Philadelphia soon after the launch of the American Revolutionary War.
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By issuing the Declaration of Independence, the american colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. It summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence.
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George Washington led the main body of the Continental Army against Hessian soldiers garrisoned at Trenton. After the battle, the entire Hessian force was captured.
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A turning point in the American Revolution, it renewed the morale of the American public and convinced potential foreigner partners that America could win the war and that it would be in the countries best interest to send aid to America.
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A treaty signed with France to create a military alliance between the US and France against Great Britain.
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An early attempt for the United States Government
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After American and French troops overran two British strongholds, Cornwallis surrendered.
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Signed in Paris by the representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States, it ended the American Revolutionary War.
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A plan by the Continental Army officers to challenge the authority of the Confederation Congress
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A series of violent attacks on courthouse and other government properties in Massachusetts, it led to a full blow military confrontation
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A national political convention to which all 13 states were asked to send delegates. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the commercial problems besetting the united states under the Articles of Confederation
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A gathering for the purpose of writing a new constitution or revising an existing constitution
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Chartered a government for the Northwest territory, it also provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory and listed a bill of rights guaranteed of the territory.
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A series of 85 essays urging the citizens of New York to ratify the New United States Constitution
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Held on a balcony of Federal Hall in New York City, Chancellor of New York Robert Livingston administered the presidential oath of office
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The French Revolution led to the end of the monarchy and many wars. The revolution ended when Napoleon Bonaparte took power.
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Congress declared the city of Washington in the District of Columbia the permanent capital of the United States because that's where the White House and the Washington Monument was located.
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Alexander Hamilton's First Report on the Public Credit was delivered to Congress and called for payment in full on all government debts as the foundation for establishing government credit.
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His report went further than an other report in projecting the future of the US and its place in the world economy. Hamilton urged Congress to promote manufacturing so that the US could be independent on foreign nations for military and other essential supplies.
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The first congress of the United States approved the first 12 amendments to the US Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification.
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It was a national bank, chartered for a term of twenty years by the United States Congress.
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Incident precipitated by the military adventurism of Citizen Edmond- Charles Genet.
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Incident precipitated by the military adventurism of Citizen Edmond- Charles Genet.
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The final battle of the Northwest Indian War, a struggle between Native American tribes affiliated with the Western Confederacy, including support from the British led by Captain Alexander McKillop.
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The tretay was signed after the Battle of Fallen Timbers and ended the Northwest Indian War. The Native Americans lost land in the present day Ohio area to the American settlers.
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A Treaty that established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain.
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A treaty between the US and Great Britain that averted war, resolved issues remaining since the Treaty of Paris
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The first test of whether the nation could transfer power through a contested election. The Federalists chose vice president John Adams as their presidential candidate
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A diplomatic incident between the French and United States diplomats that resulted in a limited, undeclared war known as the Quasi- War.
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A series of laws passed by the Federalist Congress and signed into law by president Adams. These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote.
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Began shortly after the Jay Treaty took effect in late 1794 when the French began seizing American ships trading with Britain. The official war began when Congress rescinded all treaties with France.
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Vice President Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic- Republican Party defeated incumbent President John Adams of the Federalist Party.
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It reduced the size of the Supreme Court from six justices to five and eliminated the justices circuit duties.
