Us history 1700-1800

  • The Act of Union unites England and Scotland, forming the Kingdom of Great Britain

  • The House of Burgesses passes an act to deal with slave rebellions.

  • The French and Indian War.

  • The Boston massacre

  • Decleration of independence

  • Cornwallis surrenders at the Battle of Yorktown, effectively ending the American Revolutionary War.

  • U.S. Constitution is written at the Constitutional Convention.

  • George Washington becomes the first President of the United States.

  • Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin.

  • Napoleon Bonaparte becomes First Consul of France.

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