U.S history timeline 1600-1877

By kennedyeryn

  • jamestown founded

    1st permanit colony
    wanted money

  • virginia House of Burgesses

    group of men creating the 1st legislative body
    1st representive government

  • Mayflower Compact

    1st written framework of government established in what s now the united states.

  • Fundamental Orders of Conn.

    said to be AMERICAS 1st written constitution (document)

  • French and Indian War

    French VS. British!!!
    britan colonies ohio rver valey & territories in North America.

  • War Ends

    the french and indian war

  • Treaty of Paris of 1763

    the war put England in debt
    Pay the war bill through taxes.

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Indians rights to the land
    did not allow colonist to settle west of Appalchin Mountains

  • currency act

    brittan assumed control of colonial currency system
    trade as regulated by britan

  • stamp act

    taxed anything printed on paper by forcing colonist to buy a stamp
    boycott- to stop buying
    repeald(take back)

  • Quartering Act

    made the colonist house and feed britsh soldier

  • Townshed Act

    made colonist pay taxes on imported tea, glass, paper, and other items
    the daughters of liberty

  • Boston Massacre

    5 men or colonist were killed because of refusing to pay taxes

  • Tea Act

    Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principal overt 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.

  • Boston Tea Party

    they dumped tea into ocean.

  • Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)

    was the Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament.

  • 1st Continental Congress

    a convention of delegates from twelve colonies (Georgia was not present) that met

  • 2nd Contiental Congress

    the colonist meet the military threat of the British

  • battles of Lexington and Concord

    the first battles

  • Declaration of Independence

    a statement adopted by the Continental Congress

  • Battle of Saratoga

    turning point of the Revolutionary War.

  • Articles of Confederation Written

  • Valley Forge

    Pennsylvania was the site of the military camp
    winter frost bite

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Articles of Confederation were in force

  • Treaty of Paris of 1783

  • Constitutional Convention

  • Great Compromise

  • 3/5 Compromise

  • Constitution Written

  • Washington Takes Office

  • Bill of Rights

  • Genet Affairs

  • Whiskey Rebellion

  • Pinckney's Treaty

  • Jay's Treaty

  • Adams Takes Office

  • XYZ Affairs

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Quasi War Begins

  • Jefferson Takes Office

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Marbury VS. Madison

  • Lewis&Clark Expedition

  • Embargo Act

  • McCulloch VS. Maryland

  • gibbons VS. Ogden