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Founding ofJamestown
First permanent english colony. -
Virginia house of Burgesses
The Virginia House of Burgesses was the first representative government in North America. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first written framework of government established in what is now the United States. -
Fundamental Oreders of Connecticut
The orders created an annual assembly of legislators and provided for the election of a governor. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War lasted from 1756 to 1763, forming a chapter in the imperial struggle between Britain and France. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years’ War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. -
Proclamation of 1763
This ended the French and Indian War in 1763 and was a cause for great celebration in the colonies, for it removed several ominous barriers and opened up a host of new opportunities for the colonists. -
Currency Act
The currency act was a law in the parliament of Great Britain. It prohibited the issuing of paper money from the colonies and it was passed in 1764. -
stamp act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act required that the soldiers from Great Britain be housed in American barracks and public houses. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Revenue Act. Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were applied. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Boston Tea Party
In 1773, a group of Massachusetts patriots, protesting the monopoly on tea importation, seized 342 chests of tea and threw them into Boston harbor. -
Tea Act
Tax on tea. -
Coercive Acts
Intolerable Acts, also called Coercive Acts, (1774), in U.S. colonial history, four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament. -
1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
2nd continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress 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. -
Declaration of independence
The declararion of independence was written. -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation was written. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown in 1781 with the British, Americans and French. -
Articles of Confederation
They were enforced -
Treay of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other. -
constitutional convention
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great compromise
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3/5 compromise
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constitution was written
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washington takes office
washing becomes president -
bill of rights
bill of rights was writtrn -
genet affair
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whiskey rebellion
rebellion on the tax on whiskey -
pinkneys treaty
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Jays treaty
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adams takes office
adams becomes president -
xyz affair
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alien and sedition acts
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quasi war begins
the quaisi war begins -
jefferson takes office
jefferson becomes president -
Louisiana purchase
jefferson buy a large amount of land -
marbury vs madison
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1804 lewis and clark expididtion
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embargo act of 1807
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mcculloch vs maryland
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gibbons vs ogden
