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First compromise: Stamp Act repealed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