Timeline Of The History Of The United States Essay

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Timeline of the History of the United States of
America
By Kristine Chillura

• 1754-1763
• 1763

• 1764

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French and Indian War

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Treaty of Paris

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Proclamation of 1763

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Sugar Act

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Currency Act

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May - James Otis raises the issue of taxation without representation

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August - Merchants in Boston boycott British luxury goods

• 1765

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March – Stamp Act

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March – Quartering Act

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May – Patrick Henry presents the seven Virginia Resolutions to the House of Burgesses

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July – Sons of Liberty is formed

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August 26th – Boston mob raids Thomas’ Hutchinson’s home

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October – Stamp Act Congress

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December – American boycott of English imported goods spreads greatly

• 1766

• 1767

• 1768

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March – King George III repeals the Stamp Act

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Declaratory Act

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June – Townshend Revenue Acts

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October – Citizens of Boston reinstate a boycott of English luxury goods

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February – Samuel Adams of Massachusetts writes a Circular Letter

• 1769

• 1770

• 1772
• 1773

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October – Boston’s boycott of English goods spreads to North Carolina, New Jersey, and Rhode Island

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March 5th – Boston Massacre

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April – Townshend Acts are repealed by the British

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November – Committee of Correspondence is formed

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May 10th – Tea Act

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December 16th – Boston Tea Party

• 1774

• 1775

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March – Coercive Acts (aka Intolerable Acts to the USA)

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May 20th – Second set of Coercive Acts passed

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Quartering Act enacted

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September – Massachusetts’ Governor Gage seizes the Charlestown colony’s weapons

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September 5th-October 26th – First Continental Congress

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October 14th – Declaration and Resolves is adopted

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October 20th – Congress adopts the Continental Association

• 1775

• 1776

• 1781

• 1783

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Paul Revere makes his famous horseback ride to inform the people of their coming enemy

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Revolutionary War begins

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Thomas Paine releases “Common Sense”

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Declaration of Independence Adopted & war continues

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Articles of Confederation is created

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Treaty of Paris between Britain and the Colonies is signed

• 1784
• 1785

• 1786
• 1787

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April 23rd - Land Ordinance Act 1 (called for the land recently added to the United States to be divided into separate states) •

May 20th- Land Ordinance Act 2 (immediate goal was to raise money through the sale of land)

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Shay’s Rebellion

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Northwest Ordinance

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Continental Convention

• 1788
• 1789
• 1789-1797
• 1791
• 1794

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Constitution Ratification

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Judiciary Act

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George Washington elected as the first president of the United States

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Bill of Rights ratified

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Pinckney Treaty with Spain

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Whiskey Rebellion

• 1797-1801
• 1798

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John Adams is elected as the second president of the United States

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French XYZ affair

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Alien and Sedition Acts

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Convention of 1800: Peace with France

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Second Great Awakening begins

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Thomas Jefferson is elected as the third president of the United States

• 1800

• 1801-1809

• 1801
• 1801-1805
• 1802

• 1803

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Judiciary Act

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Naval War with Tripoli

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Revised Naturalization Law

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Judiciary Act of 1801 repealed

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Marbury vs. Madison

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Louisiana Purchase

• 1804
• 1804-1806
• 1805-1809
• 1805
• 1805-1807

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Impeachment of Justice Chase

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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Thomas Jefferson is re-elected

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Peace Treaty with Tripoli

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Pike’s explorations

• 1806
• 1807

• 1809-1817

• 1809

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Burr treason trial

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Chesapeake affair

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Embargo Act

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Robert Fulton’s first steamboat is invented

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James Madison is elected as the fourth president of the United States

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Non-Intercourse Act replaces the Embargo Act

• 1810

• 1811

• 1812-1814

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Napoleon announces repeal of blockade decrees

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Madison reestablishes non-importation against Britain

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Fletcher vs. Peck

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Battle of Tippecanoe

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Cumberland Road construction begins

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War of 1812 begins

• 1813
• 1813-1817
• 1813

• 1814

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American invasions of Canada fail

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James Madison is re-elected

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