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Jamestown Founded
First Permanent English Settlement In What Is Now The United States. -
Virginia House Of Burgesses
First Form Of Representation In Colonies. -
Mayflower Compact
First Written Framework Of Government In What Is Now The United States. -
Fundemental Orders Of Conn
The orders describe the government set up by the Connecticut River towns, setting its structure and powers. -
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French And Indian War
The war was fought primarily along the frontiers separating New France from the British colonies from Virginia to Nova Scotia. The French were greatly outnumbered, so they made heavy use of Indian allies. -
Treaty Of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Peace of Paris and the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Britain's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War. -
Proclimation Of 1763
The Proclimation Of 1763 Was To Prevent The Early Colonies From Expandind To The West Of The Apalachian Mountains. -
The Currency Act
On September 1, 1764, Parliament passed the Currency Act, effectively assuming control of the colonial currency system. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act Of 1765 Had A Law That All Documents Had To Have A Stamp On It From The British.
People Had To Pay A Tax To Put The Stamp On The Paper. -
The Townshend Act
Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were applied with the design of raising £40,000 a year for the administration of the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
The Tea Act
It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party Was Performed By The Sons Of Liberty Who Were Drunk And Decided To Dress As Native Americans And Dump Millions Of Dollars Of Tea Into The Boston Harbor. -
Quartaring Act Of 1774
British Soldiers Could At Any Time Take Residence In The Colonists Houses And The Colonists Were Expected To Take Care Of Them. -
1st Continental Congress
Where The Colonists Decided if They Wanted To Declare Independance.(Georgia didnt Make It :( ) -
The Intolerable Acts
The colonies were pressed with greater taxes without any representation in Britain. This eventually lead to the Boston Tea Party. In retaliation the British passed several punative acts aimed at bringing the colonies back into submission of the King. -
Battle Of Lexington And Conncord
The First Battle Of The American Revolution, Americans Lost At Lexington But Won At Conncord. -
2nd Continental Congress
This Is Where They Wrote And Signed The Decleration Of Independance And Sent It To Britain. -
Decleration Of Independance
The Document That Was Sent To Britain And told Them that America Was Now Not A Part Of Them And Were Seperating From them. -
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The Battle Of Saratoga
The scope of the victory is made clear by a few key facts: On October 17, 1777, 5,895 British and Hessian troops surrendered their arms. General John Burgoyne had lost 86 percent of his expeditionary force that had triumphantly marched into New York from Canada in the early summer of 1777. -
Winter Of Valley Forge
This Is Where Washington Took His Troops During The Winter To Train Them. The Ones That Made It through The Winter Were Better Equiped And Trained Soldiers. -
Articles Of confederation written
Newly Made Americas First Form Of a constitution.
This Article Was Weak And Did Not Last For Very Long.
There Was Not Enough Power In The Central Government. -
Articles Of confederation In Force.
The Articles Of confederation Were Now The Laws That Dictated What a Citizen Could, and Couldn't Do.
We Could Make POST OFFICES! :) -
Siege Of Yorktown
George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War. -
Constitutional Convention Of 1783
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and June of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation. -
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Ended The American Revolution Against Britain.
This Declared That America Was No Longer A Part Of Britain And Was To Be Agknowladged As Independant. -
The Great Compromise
The Great Compromise was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. -
U.S Constitution Adopted.
The Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and ratified by conventions in eleven States. It went into effect on March 4, 1789. -
3/5ths Compromise
Compromise Reached By The People That A Slave Was Counted As 3/5ths Of A Person During Taxation,Population,and Representaion. -
Washington Takes Office
On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office -
Bill Of Rights
the bill Of Rights Listed Every American Citezens Unaliable Rights. There Were Originally 10 But More Can Be Added. -
Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion was The First Problem America Faced. American Farmers Had To Pay A Tax To Produce Whiskey. This Was Like Shays Rebellion But This Time The Government Quickly Shut It Down. -
Pinckneys Treaty
Gave The United States The Right To Use The Mississippi River.
Also Ended The Dispute Between Borders Of West Florida. -
Alien And Sedition Act
Problems In Europe Stay In Europe, they Dont Become American Problems. -
Genet Affair
Genet Was Sent To The United States To Gather Help To Fight A War But George Washington Said "No." -
Jays treaty
British Boats Attacked American Sailors.
America Said Stop It.
Britain Said Fine.
Treaty Was Made. -
Adams takes Office
Adams Takes His Oath Of Office April 21st 1797. -
XYZ Affair
France Stopped Trading With Us So We Sent Agents X,Y,Z And Possibly W To go Investigate.
Nobody Knows Who They Were, Except Agent W. -
Quasi War
French Attacked Our Ships Because We Wouldn't help them Like They helped Us.
Mostly Took Place At Sea. -
Jefferson Takes Office
The Sketchy President Takes Office.
So Help You God America. -
Marbary V. Maddison
this Is The Court Case That Caused Us To Add Judicial Review Of The Constitution In court Cases To Determine If It Was Constituional. -
Louisiana Purchase
Jefferson Buys Louisiana Teritory From Napolean for About 2 Cents an Acre. This Doubled Americas Current Size. -
Lewis And Clark
Lewis and Clark Went On An expedition To Map Out America From coast To Coast.
They Met An Indian Girl Named Sacagawea And She Led Them For a While. -
Embargo Act of 1807
The Embargo Act of 1807. The embargo was imposed in response to violations of U.S. neutrality, in which American merchantmen and their cargo were seized as contraband of war by the European navies. -
McCulloch v. Maryland
Maryland Didnt Like The Banks That The Government Made So They Taxed All Banks. The Constitution Deemed That The Federal Government Had The Power To Make National Banks. -
Gibbons v. Ogden
Made It So That The Federal Warrents Of Trade Trumped The State Issued License.
