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Clash between British soldiers and a Boston mob in which five colonists were killed!
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The Sons of Liberty, dressed as Indians, dumped hundreds of chests of tea into Boston harbor to protest the Tea Act of 1773.
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The first shots fired in the Revolutionary War near Boston, MA; approx. 100 minutemen and 250 British soldiers were killed.
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First major battle of the Revolutionary War; it actually took place at nearby Breed's Hill, MA.
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Major defeat of British general John Burgoyne and more than 5,000 British troops at Saratoga, NY.
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Upcountry South Carolina irregulars defeated British troops under Patrick Ferguson in what proved to be the turning point of the Revolutionary War in the South.
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Last battle of the Revolutionary War; General Lord Charles Cornwallis along with over 7,000 troops surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia.
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The treaty ending the Revolutionary War and recognizing American independence from Britain and established the border between Canada and the United States. It also ceded Florida to Spain.
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Meeting in Philadelphia, PA of representatives from twelve colonies to revise the existing Articles of Confederation.
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The Constitution Convention ends with the signing of the new U.S Constiitution!
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1st President of the U.S
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14th state admitted to the Union! Province of New York and New Hampshire Grants
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The first ten amendments of the United States Constitution were ratified.
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15th state of the United States. Split off from Virginia with consent of that state. The former huge, westmost Kentucky County.
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1st President Re-elected!
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16th state of the United States! Formed from western land donated to the Federal Government by North Carolina
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2nd President of the U.S!
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3rd President of the U.S
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17th state of the United States! The Northwest Territory, land donated to the Federal Government by the East Coast states such as Pennsylvania, Virginia, Connecticut, and New York
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President Thomas Jefferson's purchase from France's Napoleon Bonaparte was the important port of New Orleans and 828,000 square miles west of the Mississippi River. It doubled the U.S territory and it only costed $15 million dollars.
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Re-elected as president.
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4th President of the U.S
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Indiana governor William Henry Harrisondefeated the Shawnee Indians at the Tippecanoe River in Northern Indiana.
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18th state of the United States! Territory of Orleans!
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Fought with Britain over lingering conflicts that included impressment of American sailors, interference with shipping and collision with Northwest Territory Indians.
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Re-elected
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Meeting of New England Federalists to protest the War of 1812; proposed seven constitutional amendments, but the war ended before Congress could respond.
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A Treaty signed by the British and the Americans in Ghent, Belgium. It supposedly ended the fighting and restores previous boundaries.
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Last battle of the War of 1812, weeks after the peace treaty was signed but prior to its ratification. Andrew Jackson led the victorious American troops
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19th state of the U.S! Indiana Territory, formed from the Northwest Territory
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5th President of the U.S!
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20th state of the United States! Mississippi Territory, formed from land donated to the Federal Government by Georgia
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21st state of the U.S! Illinois Territory, formed from the Northwest Territory.
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22nd state of the U.S! Alabama Territory, formed from the Mississippi Territory, formerly part of the State of Georgia.
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23rd state of the U.S!
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Deal proposed by Kentucky senator Henry Clay to resolve the slave/free imbalance in Congress that would result from Missouri's admission as a slave state. With Maine's admission as a free state it prohibited slavery north of the southern border of Missouri.
