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To help defray the cost of keeping troops in America, the British Parliament enacted the Stamp Act 1765, imposing a tax on many types of printed materials used in the colonies
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The British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act and issued the Declaratory Act, which asserted its "full power and authority to make laws and statutes... to bind the colonies and people of America... in all cases whatsoever."
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The Townshend Acts, named for Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend, were passed by the British Parliament, placing duties on many items imported into America.
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The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British,was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others.
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The Tea Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principal over objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.
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The local Sons of Liberty published Association of the Sons of Liberty in New York.
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A political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. Disguised as American Indians, the demonstrators destroyed an entire shipment of tea, which had been sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773.
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The Congress, to which twelve colonies sent delegates, met.
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he Edenton Tea Party was a political protest in Edenton, North Carolina, in response to the Tea Act, passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Inspired by the Boston Tea Party and the calls for tea boycotts and the resolutions of the first North Carolina Provincial Congress, 51 women, led by Penelope Barker, met on October 25, 1774, and signed a statement of protest vowing to give up tea and boycott other British products "until such time that all acts which tend to enslave our Native country sh
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.[9][10] They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston.
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was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.
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The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War.
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The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought near Wilmington, North Carolina on February 27, 1776. The victory of North Carolina Revolutionary forces over Southern Loyalists helped build political support for the revolution and increased recruitment of additional soldiers into their forces.
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Second Continental Congress: The Congress approved the written United States Declaration of Independence.
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The Battle of Fort Washington was fought in New York on November 16, 1776 during the American Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain. It was a decisive British victory that gained the surrender of the entire garrison of Fort Washington near the north end of Manhattan Island.
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The Treaty of Alliance was signed with France.
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The Battle of Guilford Court House was a battle fought on March 15, 1781 in Greensboro, the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, during the American Revolutionary War. A 2,100-man British force under the command of Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis defeated Major General Nathanael Greene's 4,500 Americans. The British Army, however, sustained such heavy casualties that the result was a strategic victory for the Americans.
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The Treaty of Paris, ended the war.
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The United States Constitution came into effect
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George Washington was inaugurated as President in New York City.
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The United States Bill of Rights was ratified
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The University Of North Carolina opens
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The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana.
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The War of 1812 began.
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British troops burned Washington D.C. but were forced back at Baltimore.
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The Treaty of Ghent ended the war.
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The battle took place before notification of the Treaty of Ghent made it to the frontier.
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The Indian Removal Act was passed
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The forced removal of the Cherokee Nation from the Southeastern United States along the Trail of Tears led to over four thousand Native American deaths.
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The war began
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A decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford declared that blacks were not citizens of the United States and could not sue.
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United States presidential election, 1860: Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States.
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South Carolina Secedes from The United States.
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Ten more states seceded from the Union and established the Confederate States of America.
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The Civil War starts at Fort Sumter.
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First Battle of Bull Run starts the first official battle of the war
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A naval battle between the Monitor and Merrimack took place.
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General Robert E. Lee was placed in command of the Army of Northern Virginia.
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also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil.
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Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in the rebel states.
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The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate Army of Vicksburg led by Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
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General Ulysses S. Grant was put in command of all Union forces.
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The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, on November 15 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21.
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Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital, was captured by a corps of black Union troops
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Lee surrendered to Grant at Appamatox Court House.
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Abraham Lincoln assassination: Lincoln was assassinated; Andrew Johnson became President.
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed, permanently outlawing slavery.
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The Ku Klux Klan was founded.
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The Reconstruction era in the United States begins
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The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was passed.
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The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, second of the Reconstruction Amendments, was ratified.
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Women's suffrage leaders Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association.
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The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed.
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The era of Reconstruction ends in the U.S.
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The Gilded Age begins in America
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The Gilded Age in America ends
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Race riot starts in Wilmington NC, all blacks and republicans are forced out of the city.
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The Ford Motor Company was formed.
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The Wright brothers made their first powered flight in the Wright Flyer.
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The Ford Model T appeared on the market.
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The RMS Titanic crashed into an iceberg in the northern Atlantic Ocean, sinking the ship entirely less than three hours the initial collision, killing over 1,500 of the 2,224 passengers aboard
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The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, establishing direct election of Senators, was ratified
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Henry Ford developed the modern assembly line.
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The Great Migration begins in America
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Austria-Hungary invaded the Kingdom of Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; triggering the start of World War I.
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The United States declared war on Germany, beginning the U.S.'s involvement in World War I.
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The Treaty of Versailles ended the war.
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The roaring 20's begin in America
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The first radio broadcasts were made, in Pittsburgh and Detroit.
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Prohibition outlaws alcohol in America
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The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, granting women the right to vote, was ratified.
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Teapot Dome scandal: Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall resigned as a result of the scandal.
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High school teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, for teaching human evolution in the classroom
