Unit 3 Timeline Flashcards
1
Q
Proclamation Line limites white settlement
A
1763
2
Q
Sugar Act and Currency Act
A
1764
3
Q
Colonists oppose vice-admiralty courts
A
1764
4
Q
Stamp Act imposes direct tax
A
1765
5
Q
Quartering Act requires barracks for British troops
A
1765
6
Q
Stamp Act Congress meets - Americans boycott British goods
A
1765
7
Q
First compromise: Stamp Act repealed
A
1766
8
Q
Declaratory Act passed
A
1765
9
Q
Townshend duties
A
1767
10
Q
Second American boycott
A
1768
11
Q
Second compromise: partial repeal of Townshend Act
A
1770
12
Q
Boston Massacre
A
1770
13
Q
Committees of correspondence form
A
1772
14
Q
Tea Act leads to Boston Tea Party
A
1773
15
Q
Coercive Acts punish Massachusetts
A
1774
16
Q
Dunmore’s War against the Shawnees
A
1774
17
Q
Continental Congress meets - Third American boycott
A
1774
18
Q
General Gage marches to Lexington and Concord
A
1775
19
Q
Second Continental congress creates Continental army
A
1775
20
Q
Lord Dunmore recruits Loyalist slaves
A
1775
21
Q
Patriots invade CAnada and skirmish with Loyalists in South
A
1775
22
Q
Western settlers occupy Kentucky
A
1775
23
Q
Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense”
A
1776
24
Q
Declaration of Independence
A
1776
25
Second Continental Congress declares independence
1776
26
Howe forces Washington to retreat from New York and New Jersey
1776
27
Pennsylvania approves democratic state constitution
1776
28
John Adams publishes "Thoughts on Government"
1776
29
Articles of Confederation create central government
1777
30
Howe occupies Philadelphia (September)
1777
31
Gates defeats Burgoyne at Saratoga (October)
177
32
Franco-American alliance (February)
1778
33
Lord North seeks political settlement
1778
34
Congress rejects negotiations
1778
35
British adopt southern strategy
1778
36
British capture Savannah (December)
1778
37
Severe inflation of Continental currency
1778-1781
38
British and American forces battle in Georgia
1779
39
Clinton seizes Charleston (May)
1780
40
French troops land in Rhode Island
1780
41
Cornwallis invades Virginia (April), surrenders at Yorktown (October)
1783
42
States finally ratify Articles of Confederation
1781
43
Treaty of Paris (September 3) officially ends war
1783
44
Congress enacts political and land ordinances for new states
1784-1785
45
Nationalists hold convention in Annapolis, Maryland
1786
46
Shay's Rebellion roils Massachusetts
1786
47
Congress passes Northwest Ordinance
1787
48
Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
1787
49
Jay, MAdison, and Hamilton write "The Federalist"
1787-1788
50
Eleven states ratify US Constitution
1787-1788
51
Contested Indian treaties: Fort Stanwix (1784), Fort McIntosh (1785), Fort Finney (1786), and Fort Harmar (1789)
1784-1789
52
French Revolution
1789-1799
53
Judiciary Act establishes federal courts
1789
54
Hamilton's public credit system approved
1790
55
Western Confederacy defeats US awrmies
1790-1791
56
Haitian Revolution
1791-1803
57
Bill of Rights ratified
1791
58
Bank of US chartered
1791
59
Kentucky joins Union
1792
60
War between Britain and France
1793
61
Madison and Jefferson found Republican Party
1794
62
Whiskey Rebellion
1794
63
Battle of Fallen Timbers
1794
64
Jay's Treaty with Great Britain
1795
65
Pinckney's Treaty with Spain
1795
66
Treaty of Greenville accepts Indian land rights
1795
67
XYZ Affair
1798
68
Alien, Sedition, and Naturalization Acts
1798
69
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
1798
70
Jefferson elected president
1800
71
Lousiana Purchase
1803
72
Marbury v. Madison asserts judicial review
1803
73
Gallatin reduces national debt
1801-1812
74
Lewis and Clark explore West
1804-1806
75
Embargo Act cripples American shipping
1807
76
MAdison elected president
1808
77
Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa revive Western Confederacy
1809
78
War of 1812
1812-1815
79
Era of Good Feeling
1817-1825
80
Adams-Onis Treaty
1819
81
McCulloch v. Maryland; Dartmouth College v. Woodward
1819
82
St. Jean de Crèvecoeur publishes "Letters from an American Farmer"
1782
83
Virginia manumission law (repealed 1792)
1782
84
Noah Webster publishes his "blue-black speller"
1783
85
Slavery ends in Massachusetts
1784
86
Northern states begin gradual emancipation
1784
87
Benjamin Rush writes "Thoughts on Female Education"
1787
88
States grant corporations charters and special privileges, private companies build roads and canals to facilitate trade, merchants expand rural outwork system
1790s
89
Chesapeake blacks adopt Protestant beliefs, parents limit family size as farms shrink, Second Great Awakening expands church membership
1790s
90
Congress charters first Bank of US
1791
91
Mary Wollstonecraft publishes "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"
1792
92
Massachusetts Mill Dam Act
1795
93
Gabriel Prosser plots slave rebellion in Virginia
1800
94
Rise of sentimentalism and of companionate marriages
1800s
95
Women's religious activism, founding of female academies
1800s
96
Religious benevolence sparks social reform
1800s
97
Cane Ride revival in Kentucky
1801
98
Congress charters Second Bank of United States
1816
99
Prominent whites create American Colonization Society
1817
100
Plummeting agricultural prices set off financial panic
1819
101
Missouri Compromise
1819-1821
102
States reform education, women become schoolteachers
1820s
