Period III Timeline

Question 1

1754

Answer 1

The Beginning of the French and Indian War

Question 2

1763

Answer 2

The Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War.

Proclamation Act

Question 3

1764

Answer 3

Sugar Act

First Committee of Correspondence established in Boston.

March of the Paxton Boys

Question 4

1765

Answer 4

Stamp Act

Stamp Act Congress

Question 5

1766

Answer 5

Declaratory Act

Question 6

1767

Answer 6

Townshend Revenue Acts

Question 7

1770

Answer 7

Boston Massacre

Question 8

1772

Answer 8

The Gaspee Affair

Question 9

1773

Answer 9

Tea Act

Boston Tea Party

Question 10

1774

Answer 10

Coercive (Intolerable) Acts

First Continental Congress

Question 11

1775

Answer 11

Fighting at Lexington and Concord

Second Continental Congress

Question 12

1776

Answer 12

Publication of Common Sense by Thomas Paine

Declaration of Independence

Question 13

1777

Answer 13

Articles of Confederation written

Question 14

1778

Answer 14

Battle of Saratoga

France enters the war on the side of the American revolutionaries

Question 15

1781

Answer 15

Articles of Confederation ratified by the states

Question 16

1783

Answer 16

Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolution

Question 17

1784

Answer 17

First Land Ordinance

Treaty of Fort Stanwix

Question 18

1785

Answer 18

Second Land Ordinance

Question 19

1786

Answer 19

Shay’s Rebellion

Annapolis meeting to revise Articles of Confederation

Question 20

1787

Answer 20

Northwest Ordinance

Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia

Question 21

1788

Answer 21

Publication of the Federalist

Ratification of the Constitution

First federal elections

Question 22

1789

Answer 22

Inauguration of George Washington

Judiciary Act

Beginning of the French Revolution

Question 23

1791

Answer 23

Ratification of the Bill of Rights

Alexander Hamilton issues “Report on Manufacturers”

The Bank of the United States approved

Question 24

1793

Answer 24

War between Great Britain and France

Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation

Question 25

1794

Answer 25

Whiskey Rebellion Jay's Treaty

Question 26

1795

Answer 26

Pinckney's Treaty

Question 27

1796

Answer 27

Washington's Farewell Address

Question 28

1798

Answer 28

XYZ Affair "Quazi-war" with France Alien and Sedition Acts Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

Question 29

1800

Answer 29

Election of Thomas Jefferson