UNITED STATES FROM THE INDEPENDENCE WAR TO THE CIVIL WAR By facebooker_6626710677342194 1763 TREATY OF PARIS (7 YEARS WAR END) 1764 SUGAR ACT 1765 STAMP ACT 1770 BOSTON MASSACRE 1773 BOSTON TEA PARTY 1773 COERCIVE ACT Period: 1774 to 1775 CONTINENTAL CONGRESSES (PHILADELPHIA) Period: 1775 to 1783 THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE Jul 4, 1776 INDEPENDENCE DECLARATION 1783 PEACE OF PARIS Jun 21, 1788 CONSTITUTION RATIFIED ON JUNE 21, 1788 1789 GEORGE WASHINGTON 1ST PRESIDENT Period: 1812 to 1860 THE NEW FEDERATION 1850 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE'S SCARLET LETTER 1852 HARRIET STOWE'S UNCLE TOWN CABIN 1860 LINCOLN VICTORY 1861 JEFFERSON DAVIS DECLARED CONFEDERATE S.A Period: 1861 to 1865 CIVIL WAR 1863 UNION VICTORY AT GETTYSBURG AND VICKSBURG 1865 UNION DETERMINING VICTORY AT FIVE FORKS 1865 SLAVERY ABOLISHED 1865 SOUTHERN STATES FOLLOWED A POLICY OF "EQUAL BUT SEPARATED" 1866 LINCOLN IS ASSASSINATED 1895 STEPHEN'S CRANE THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE