AP US History

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  • Shawnee defeated by Virgina militia in Lord Dunmore's War

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Patriots driven from their position
    british more losses
    greatest losses of the war

  • George Washington appointed to command American forces

    Continental army vs. state armies
    had help of Marquis de Lafayette in France and Baron von Steuben from Prussia
    successful in holding the nation together

  • Second Continental Congress meets

  • Montgomery assault on Quebec fails

    Benedict Arnold and Richard Montomery tried to get Canadians to join the cause
    Mongomery died in the assault
    Benedict Arnold injured and kept going for a while, ended in frustration
    Franklin attempted and failed as well

  • British troops leave Boston

    b/c center of anti-british
    tactically indefensable easily isolated

  • Declaration of Independence debated and signed

  • Thomas Paine's Common Sense published

  • Howe routs Americans on Long Island

  • Battle of Trenton

  • irst state constitutions written

  • Burgoyne surrenders to Gates at Saratoga

  • Battles of Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown

  • Howe occupies Philadelphia

  • Washington camps at Valley Forge for winter

  • Articles of Confederation adopted

    confirmed the weak central government already in operation
    coordinating agency of war effort
    limited power over states
    not ratified until 1781

  • War shifts to the South

  • British capture Savannah

  • British leave Philadelphia

  • French-American alliance established

  • Clinton replaces Howe

  • British capture Charleston

  • Cornwallis defeats Gates at Camden, South Carolina

  • Patriats defeat Tories at King's Moutain, South Carolina

  • Massachusetts state constitution ratified

  • Slavery abolished in Pennsylvania

  • Battles of Cowpens and Guilford Court House

  • Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown

  • Articles of Confederation ratified

  • Continental impost proposed

  • Period: to

    Sates cede western lands to Confederation

  • American militiamen massacre Delaware Indians in Ohio

  • Treaty of Paris with Great Britain recognizes American independence

    territory from southern boundary of canada to northern boundary of florida
    atlantic to mississppi

  • Slavery abolished in Massachusetts

  • Confederation Congress leaves Philadelphia

  • Postwar depression begins, aggravating currency problems

  • Period: to

    First ordinances establishing procedures for settling western lands enacted

  • Confederation settles in New York

  • Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom passed

  • Annapolis Conference meets

  • Period: to

    Shays's Rebellion in Massachusetts

  • Constitution adopted

  • Northwest Ordinance enacted

    abandoned districts established in 1784
    established a singele northewest territory
    pop 60000 min for statehood
    freedom of religion
    right to trial by jury
    prohibited slavery

  • Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia meets

  • States ratify the Constitution

  • John Carrol named first bishop of Catholic Church of United Sates

    the war improved the position of the roman catholic church

  • First elections held under Constitution

  • New government assembles in New York

  • Washington becomes first president

  • Bill of Rights adopted

  • Judiciary Act of 1789

    6 member for supreme court with a cheif justice
    13 district courts one judge each
    three circuit courts of appeal
    supreme court decides constitutionality

  • French revolution begins

  • Hamilton's "Report on Manufactures"

    grand scheme for stimulating growth of industry
    advantages of a nation with healthy manufacturing base
    assume the debt, tarriffs, national bank

  • First bank of US chartered

  • Vermont 14th state

  • Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women published in the United Sates

  • Washington reelected without oposition

  • Kentucky 15th state

  • Citizen Genet affair challenges American nuetrality

    wanted to use american ports for french warships, encouraged american shipowners to serve as french privateers, commisioned george rogers clark for expedition against spain
    didn't go to capital, but charleston

  • Anthony Wayne defeats Indians in Ohio

  • John Adams elected president

  • Tennessee 16th state

  • XYZ affair precipitates quasi war with France

  • Alien and Sedition Acts passed

  • Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions passed

  • Jefferson and Burr tie vote in electoral college

  • Judiciary Act of 1801