Unit 3 Timeline Flashcards
Proclamation Line limites white settlement
1763
Sugar Act and Currency Act
1764
Colonists oppose vice-admiralty courts
1764
Stamp Act imposes direct tax
1765
Quartering Act requires barracks for British troops
1765
Stamp Act Congress meets - Americans boycott British goods
1765
First compromise: Stamp Act repealed
1766
Declaratory Act passed
1765
Townshend duties
1767
Second American boycott
1768
Second compromise: partial repeal of Townshend Act
1770
Boston Massacre
1770
Committees of correspondence form
1772
Tea Act leads to Boston Tea Party
1773
Coercive Acts punish Massachusetts
1774
Dunmore’s War against the Shawnees
1774
Continental Congress meets - Third American boycott
1774
General Gage marches to Lexington and Concord
1775
Second Continental congress creates Continental army
1775
Lord Dunmore recruits Loyalist slaves
1775
Patriots invade CAnada and skirmish with Loyalists in South
1775
Western settlers occupy Kentucky
1775
Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense”
1776
Declaration of Independence
1776
Second Continental Congress declares independence
1776
Howe forces Washington to retreat from New York and New Jersey
1776
Pennsylvania approves democratic state constitution
1776
John Adams publishes “Thoughts on Government”
1776
Articles of Confederation create central government
1777
Howe occupies Philadelphia (September)
1777
Gates defeats Burgoyne at Saratoga (October)
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Franco-American alliance (February)
1778
Lord North seeks political settlement
1778
Congress rejects negotiations
1778
British adopt southern strategy
1778
British capture Savannah (December)
1778
Severe inflation of Continental currency
1778-1781
British and American forces battle in Georgia
1779
Clinton seizes Charleston (May)
1780
French troops land in Rhode Island
1780
Cornwallis invades Virginia (April), surrenders at Yorktown (October)
1783
States finally ratify Articles of Confederation
1781
Treaty of Paris (September 3) officially ends war
1783
Congress enacts political and land ordinances for new states
1784-1785
Nationalists hold convention in Annapolis, Maryland
1786
Shay’s Rebellion roils Massachusetts
1786
Congress passes Northwest Ordinance
1787
Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
1787
Jay, MAdison, and Hamilton write “The Federalist”
1787-1788
Eleven states ratify US Constitution
1787-1788
Contested Indian treaties: Fort Stanwix (1784), Fort McIntosh (1785), Fort Finney (1786), and Fort Harmar (1789)
1784-1789
French Revolution
1789-1799
Judiciary Act establishes federal courts
1789
Hamilton’s public credit system approved
1790
Western Confederacy defeats US awrmies
1790-1791
Haitian Revolution
1791-1803
Bill of Rights ratified
1791
Bank of US chartered
1791
Kentucky joins Union
1792
War between Britain and France
1793
Madison and Jefferson found Republican Party
1794
Whiskey Rebellion
1794
Battle of Fallen Timbers
1794
Jay’s Treaty with Great Britain
1795
Pinckney’s Treaty with Spain
1795
Treaty of Greenville accepts Indian land rights
1795
XYZ Affair
1798
Alien, Sedition, and Naturalization Acts
1798
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
1798
Jefferson elected president
1800
Lousiana Purchase
1803
Marbury v. Madison asserts judicial review
1803
Gallatin reduces national debt
1801-1812
Lewis and Clark explore West
1804-1806
Embargo Act cripples American shipping
1807
MAdison elected president
1808
Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa revive Western Confederacy
1809
War of 1812
1812-1815
Era of Good Feeling
1817-1825
Adams-Onis Treaty
1819
McCulloch v. Maryland; Dartmouth College v. Woodward
1819
St. Jean de Crèvecoeur publishes “Letters from an American Farmer”
1782
Virginia manumission law (repealed 1792)
1782
Noah Webster publishes his “blue-black speller”
1783
Slavery ends in Massachusetts
1784
Northern states begin gradual emancipation
1784
Benjamin Rush writes “Thoughts on Female Education”
1787
States grant corporations charters and special privileges, private companies build roads and canals to facilitate trade, merchants expand rural outwork system
1790s
Chesapeake blacks adopt Protestant beliefs, parents limit family size as farms shrink, Second Great Awakening expands church membership
1790s
Congress charters first Bank of US
1791
Mary Wollstonecraft publishes “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”
1792
Massachusetts Mill Dam Act
1795
Gabriel Prosser plots slave rebellion in Virginia
1800
Rise of sentimentalism and of companionate marriages
1800s
Women’s religious activism, founding of female academies
1800s
Religious benevolence sparks social reform
1800s
Cane Ride revival in Kentucky
1801
Congress charters Second Bank of United States
1816
Prominent whites create American Colonization Society
1817
Plummeting agricultural prices set off financial panic
1819
Missouri Compromise
1819-1821
States reform education, women become schoolteachers
1820s