The Revolutionary War Era

• 1763: Proclamation of 1763 restricts settlement west of the Appalachians
• 1764: The Sugar and Currency Acts are passed.
• 1765: The Stamp Act is passed.
• 1767: The Townshend Acts are passed.
• 1770: The Boston Massacre.
• 1772: Samuel Adams organizes the Committees of Correspondence.
  • The Tea Act is passed; the Boston Tea Party
• 1774: The Intolerable Acts are passed.
  • The First Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia.
• 1775: Battles of Lexington and Concord
  • The Second Continental Congress convenes.
• 1776: American Declaration of Independence
  • Thomas Paine's Common Sense
  • Battles of Long Island and Trenton
• 1777: Battle of Saratoga
  • Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.
  • Vermont ends slavery.
• 1778: Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France.
• 1779: Spain declares war on England.
• 1781: British surrender at Yorktown.
• 1783: Treaty of Peace is signed.
• 1785: Land Ordinance of 1785.
• 1787: Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
  • James Madison develops principles for the US Constitution
  • Northwest Ordinance.
  • Shay's Rebellion.

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