NOTES

1754 – Start of the French and Indian War

Seven Years War (Europe)

1763 End of the War

George Washington

William Pitt

Edward Braddock (defeated at the Battle of Monongahela River); George Washington was his aid; Daniel Morgan (a wagoner)

1763 – Proclamation of 1763 Set-up Boundaries for the Colonist Expansion. 

1764 Sugar Act

1765 Stamp Act

1766 Declaratory Act

1767 Townshend Acts

1770 Boston Massacre

1773 Boston Tea Party

1774 Intolerable Acts

a)    Boston Port Act

b)   Massachusetts Government Act

c)    Administration of Justice Act

d)   Quebec Act

1774 1^st Continental Congress

1775 April – Lexington and Concord

1775 May – 2^nd Continental Congress

The Revolutionary War 1775-1783

John Adams

Thomas Jefferson

George Washington

Benedict Arnold

Richard Montgomery

William Howe

Johnny Burgoyne

Benjamin Franklin

Thomas Paine

Daniel Morgan

Alexander Hamilton

Charles Cornwallis

Banastre Tarleton

1775 – Ticonderoga

1775 – 1776 Invasion of Canada (Quebec)

1776 – February, British evacuate Boston

1776 – Battle of New York

1776 – Battle of Valcour Island

1776 – Battle of Trenton

1777 – Battle of Saratoga

1777 – Articles of Confederation

1778 – Battle of Monmouth Courthouse

1781 – Battle of Cowpens

1781 – Battle of Yorktown

1783 – Treaty of Paris

1783 – George Washington resigns as Commander-in-Chief

1786-1787 Shay’s Rebellion

1787 Constitutional Convention

1788 Constitution Ratified (11 States ratified it – North Carolina and Rhode Island ratified it in 1790)

1789 – 1797 George Washington President (No Political Party)

1791 – Whiskey Rebellion

1791 – Vermont becomes 14^th State

1792 – Kentucky becomes 15^th State

1796 – Tennessee because 16^th State

1797 – John Adams becomes President (Federalist President)

1797-1798 XYZ Affair

1800 – Thomas Jefferson Elected President (Democrat-Republican)