Names and Dates 2 Flashcards
1764
Sugar Act
1765
Quartering Act / stamp act / stamp act Congress
1766
Stamp Act repealed
Declaratory act passed
1767
Townshend Acts passed
1770
Townshend Acts repealed
Tea Tax maintained
Boston massacre
1772
Massachusetts Committee of Correspondence
Gaspee burned
1773
Boston Tea Party
1774
First continental congress
Intolerable Acts
Quebec Act
1775
Battles of Lexington and Concord
1776
Second Continental Congress
Declaration of Independence
1778
Battle of Saratoga
1781
Battle of Yorktown
Articles of Confederation ratified
1783
Treaty of Paris
1785
Basic Land Ordinance
1786
Annapolis Convention
1786-1787
Shays’s Rebellion
1787
Constitutional convention
Northwest ordinance
1788
Nine states ratify the constitution
1789
George Washington elected president
13 states join Federal Union
1790
Alexander Hamilton’s financial plan