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Battles of Lexington and Concord
The first wars in the Revolutionary war. American minutemen fought against British soldiers. They were to stop the British from reaching Concord. -
Signing of the Declaration of Independence
The declaration of Independence was a huge moment in American History when America declared Independence from Great Britain. Thomas Jefferson wrote it. It was signed on Jul 4th, 1776. -
Saratoga
The battle of Saratoga on October 7th, 1776 was regarded as the turning point in the American Revolutionary War. It pit General John Burgoyne of the British forces and General Horatio Gates of the Americans. The war was fought in the town of Saratoga and was an American victory. -
Ratification of Articles of Confederation
The articles signed by Congress and sent to the individual states for ratification were ratified on March 1st, 1781. After months of debate, the articles were finally ratified. -
Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown was the final battle of the Revolutionary War with General George Washington and General Comte de Rochambeau on the Patriot side and Charles Cornwallis on the British. The battle ended with Cornwallis surrendering on October 19th, 1781 -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Pris was signed on September 3rd, 1783 in the Hotel d'York, Paris, France. Benjamin Franklin, John Jay and John Adams were from the American side, and David Hartley and Richard Oswald on the British. -
Land Ordinance of 1785
The land Ordinance of 1785 was an ordinance to raise money through the sale of land in the largely unmapped territory west of the original states acquired after the end of the Revolutionary War in the 1783 Treaty of Paris. It was adopted on May 20, 1785 -
Shay's rebellion
Daniel Shays and some other farmers held an armed uprising against the goverment as protest to harsh government policies on August 29th, 1786. They attempted to take Massachusetts courts. -
Constitutional Convention opens
The Constituitonal Convention opened on 25th May 1787 when delegates from all the states met to discuss a future for the nation. They wanted to establish a strong goverment -
Three Fifths Compromise
This Compromise was signed somewhere between 25 May 1787 and 17 September 1787 . To satisfy both the North and the South, It said that a slave would count as 3/5 of a person. -
Great Compromise
Roger Sherman proposed a compromise that said that each state would get an equal vote in the senate and if a state had a larger population, then it would send more delegates to the House of Representatives.This was approved on July 16th, 1787 -
Agreed on Banning Slave trade
The delegates to the convention from the North wanted slavery outlwawed throughout the nation but the delegates from the South wanted "their right to import slaves untouched" so the delegates settled on a compromise that Congress could not ban the slave trade until 1808. -
"Observations of the Constitution and Federal Government" is published.
This book was published sometime in 1788. it claimed that the framers of the Constitution, in the writing of the Constitution, sabotaged the newly won rights of the American citizens. An extremely well educated woman published it. -
Ratification of The Constituition by Rhode Island
Rhode island was the second-last state to ratify the constituition, deciding on it by a narrow margin of 34-32. It's lone delegate, Benjamin Bourne, arrived very late to the First Congress. Rhode Island became part of the United States after ratifying the Constitution.
