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launched by Native American tribes who were dissatisfied with British postwar policies in the Great Lakes region
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The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1756–63. It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France.
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Pontiac's War was launched in 1763 by Native American tribes who were dissatisfied with policies in the Great Lakes region after the French and Indian War.
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The Paxton Boys were frontiersmen of Scots-Irish who formed a vigilante group to retaliate against local American Indians in the aftermath of the French and Indian War and Pontiac's Rebellion.
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Intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands.
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Issued by King George III, the proclamation prohibited settlers from crossing west over the Appalachian Mountains in order to prevent further conflicts between settlers and Native Americans.
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A vigilante group who attacked local American Indians in the aftermath of the French and Indian War and Pontiac's Rebellion
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A revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain which raised duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market.
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A law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market.
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Imposed a direct tax on the Thirteen Colonies and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London
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The Townshend Revenue Act placed a tax on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea.
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Indirect levies on glass, white lead, paper, and tea.
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A treaty between Native Americans and Great Britain signed in present-day Rome, New York.
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Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.
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Famous judgment of the Court of King's Bench in 1772, which held that chattel slavery was unsupported by the common law in England
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A famous judgment of the Court of King's Bench in 1772, which held that chattel slavery was unsupported by the common law in England
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The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the financially struggling company survive.
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The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the financially struggling company survive.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.
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The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest.
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting to discuss, first and foremost, how would the colonist meet the military threat of the British. It was agreed that a Continental Army would be created.
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies.
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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Despite their loss, the inexperienced colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against the enemy.
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The Battle of Trenton was a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War which took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey.
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The 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence.
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Advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Written in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government.
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By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence.
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A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
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The Battle of Trenton was a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War.
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The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.
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The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.
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A defensive alliance between France and the United States of America, formed in the midst of the American Revolutionary War, which promised mutual military support in case fighting should break out between French and British forces
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The significance of the conflict was that Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington as French and American forces trapped the British at Yorktown. The British surrender at the Battle of Yorktown ended the American Revolutionary War.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.
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The original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789.
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Lord Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington at Yorktown thus finalizing the colonial victory.
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The Newburgh Conspiracy was a plan by Continental Army officers to challenge the authority of the Confederation Congress.
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The Newburgh Conspiracy was what appeared to be a planned military coup by the Continental Army in March 1783, when the American Revolutionary War was at its end.
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The Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolutionary War. The treaty was signed by King George III and representatives of the United States.
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Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts where American Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels in a protest against perceived economic and civil rights injustices.
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A national political convention held September 11–14, 1786 at Mann's Tavern in Annapolis, Maryland.
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A gathering for the purpose of writing a new constitution or revising an existing constitution.
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The Northwest Ordinance chartered a government for the Northwest Territory.
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A collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution.
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The first inauguration of George Washington as the first President of the United States was held on Thursday, April 30, 1789 on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City, New York.
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The French Revolution was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799. It was partially carried forward by Napoleon during the later expansion of the French Empire.
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Called for payment in full on all government debts as the foundation for establishing government credit.
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Hamilton's Report on Manufactures went further than any other report in projecting the future of the United States and its place in the world economy. Hamilton urged congress to promote manufacturing so that the United States could be "independent on foreign nations for military and other essential supplies."
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The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington, ultimately under the command of Revolutionary war veteran Major James McFarlane.
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The First Bank of the United States was needed because the government had a debt from the Revolutionary War, and each state had a different form of currency.
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The Citizen Genêt affair began in 1793 when he was dispatched to the United States to promote American support for France's wars with Spain and Britain.
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a struggle between Native American tribes affiliated with the Western Confederacy, including support from the British led by Captain Alexander McKillop, against the United States for control of the Northwest Territory
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A 1795 treaty between the United States and Great Britain that averted war, resolved issues remaining since the Treaty of Paris of 1783
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Ended the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country and limited strategic parcels of land to the north and west.
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Established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain.
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A diplomatic incident that occurred in 1797 between the United States and France. Angered by the 1795 Jay Treaty that restricted trade with any nations hostile to Great Britain, the French began seizing American ships.
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These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote.
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The Quasi-War was an undeclared war fought almost entirely at sea between the United States and France from 1798 to 1800.
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Reduced the size of the Supreme Court from six justices to five and eliminated the justices' circuit duties.
