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| The Continnental Congress adopts the OLIVE BRANCH PETITION andthe DECLARATION OF THE CAUSES AND NECESSITIES OF TAKING UP ARMS (written by Thomas Jefferson). Calls for idependence are rejected. |
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| France recognizes the idependence of the United States and signs an alliance with us the following month (March?) |
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| British forces evacuate NYC, taking 7000 loyalists with them. |
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| Parliment repeals the Townshend Duties but a small tax on tea is left in place |
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STAMP ACT and QUARTERING ACT are passed by Parliment.
Stamp Act: tax that required certain goods to bear an official stamp showing that the owner had paid his or her tax. Many of these items were paper goods, such as legal documents and licenses, newspapers, leaflets, and even playing cards. the act declared that those who failed to pay the tax would be punished by the vice-admiralty courts without a trial by jury.
Quartering Act: required residents of some colonies to feed and house British soldiers serving in America. |
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| Colonial Merchants boycott British goods in Protest to the townshend Duties |
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| Parliment declares Massachussetts to be in a state of Rebellion |
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| Spain Declares war on Britain |
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| Britain and the United States sign the TREATY OF PARIS |
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| The TREATY OF PARIS ends the French and Indian war |
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| Chief Pontiac leads an Indian uprising against British forts and colonial settlers in the Great Lakes region |
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| James Otis talks about TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION |
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| Britain notifies the US that it will not evacuate forts in the great lakes region Until th Issue of pre-war debts is settled. |
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| Parliment passes the Tea Act, permitting the British East India Company to sell Tea Directly to the Colonies. |
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| Boston merchants stop importing British goods (pretty much they boycott.) |
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| October 1767 (there are two) |
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| Two Regiments of the British troops are stationed in Boston to quell patriot protests in the city. |
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| Patric Henry said "Give me liberty, or give me death!" during a speech given to the Virginia Legislature |
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| King George III declares that the colonies are in a state of rebellion |
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| Thomas Paine publishes COMMON SENSE |
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| New Hampshire becomes the NINTH state to ratify the propsed Constitution, which, in theory, then takes effect. |
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| Benjamin Franklin proposes the ALBANY PLAN OF THE UNION to coordinate policies of the colonies. Colonial legislatures reject the plan. |
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| American troops in New Jersey mutiny |
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| British troops clash with colonial militia forces at the battle of LEXINGTON AND CONCORD |
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| BOSTON MASSACRE (british troops kill five colonial protestors) |
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| The Continental Congress adopts the ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION |
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| King George III issues the PROCLIMATION OF 1763, barring colonial settlement west of the Appalatian Mountains |
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| Continental Congress approves the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE |
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| The Continental Congress approves the CONSTITUTION |
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| The Continental Congress forms a committee to draft a call for independence (declaration of independence) |
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| BOSTON TEA PARTY! (Patriots destroy the cargoes of the British East India Trading Co. Ships) |
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| Delegates at the ANNAPOLIS CONVENTION (a convention between Maryland and Virginia over a border dispute) call on congress to convene a meeting of the states in the spring of 1787 as they realize how flawed the Articles of Confederation are. |
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| The First Continnental Congress meets in response to the Intolerable acts and rejects parliment's authority over the colonies. |
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"Stamp Act Congress" meeting in NY, votes to send DECLARATION OF RIGHTS AND GRIEVANCES* to King George III
*created during the Stamp Act, declaring that taxes imposed on colonists without their consent were unconstitutional.(especially directed at intolerable acts.) |
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| Parliment agrees to repeal the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act. They then pass the DECLARATORY ACT, affirming their authority to make laws for the colonies. |
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| CORNWALLIS surrenders his 7500-man army at Yorktown. Britain abandons it's efforts to regain American colonies. |
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| Colonial legislatures approve resolutions to protest the Stamp Act and the SONS OF LIBERTY are founded to promote colonial rights. |
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| Parliment passes the INTOLERABLE ACTS in response to the Boston Tea Party as well as patriot unrest in massachusetts. |
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| The first installment of the FEDERALIST PAPERS appears as states prepare to consider the ratification of the proposed constitution. |
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| Delegates from the twelve states meet in philedelphia To Draft a new constitution |
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| Elections for the new congress are held and George washington is unanimously choses to serve as the nation's first president. |
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| SUGAR ACT is passed by Parliment to raise revenue from the colonies in order to maintain Britain's North American Empire. |
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| Parliment passes the TOWNSHEND DUTIES, imposing new taxes on the colonies to raise revenue for administration |
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| Second Continnental Congress meets in Philly and George Washington is asked to lead a colonial Army |
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