Colonial Time (1700-1775) By 1700 colonists had established their presence in America. In this time period early American cities begin to develop and the immigrants began to acquire an American identity. By 1775 colonials banded together to fight what they saw as English tyranny.*

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1754-1763 • French and Indian War

1763 • Treaty of Paris • Proclamation Line of 1763

1764 • Sugar Act • Currency Act • May – James Otis raises the issue of taxation without representation              • August – Boston merchants begin a boycott of British luxury goods

1765 • March – Stamp Act • March – Quartering Act • May – Patrick Henry presents seven Virginia                 Resolutions to the House of Burgesses • July – Sons of Liberty is formed • August 26 – mob in                   Boston attacks the home of Thomas Hutchinson • October – Stamp Act Congress • December –               American boycott of English imports spreads

1766 • March – King George III repeals the Stamp Act • Declaratory Act

1767 • June – Townshend Revenue Acts • October – Bostonians reinstate a boycott of English luxury items

1768 • February – Samuel Adams of Massachusetts writes a Circular Letter

1769 • October – Boycott of English goods spreads to New Jersey, Rhode Island, and North Carolina 1770 • March 5 – Boston Massacre • April – Townshend Acts are repealed by the British

1772 • November – Committee of Correspondence formed

1773 • May 10 – Tea Act • December 16 – Boston Tea Party

1774 • March – Coercive Acts (called Intolerable Acts by Americans) • May 20 – Second set of Coercive          Acts • June – a new version of the 1765 Quartering Act enacted September – Massachusetts                    Governor Gage seizes that colony’s arsenal of weapons at Charlestown • September 5–October 26          - First Continental Congress • October 14 – Declaration and Resolves is adopted • October 20 -              Congress adopts the Continental Association

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The Revolution and Early Government (1775-1800) During this time period an army mostly made up of the common man, accomplished the miraculous feat of expelling a professional army from America’s borders. America then lived through the beginnings of two forms of government.*

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1775 • Paul Revere’s Ride • Revolutionary War begins

1776 • Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” • Declaration of Independence Adopted (Continued War) 1781           • Articles of Confederation created

1783 • Treaty of Paris between Britain and Colonies

1784 • Land Ordinance Act

1785 • Land Ordinance Act

1786 • Shays' Rebellion

1787 • Northwest Ordinance • Continental Convention

1788 • Ratification of Constitution

1789 • 1789-1792 -- George Washington elected • Judiciary Act

1791 • Bill of Rights ratified

1794 • Pinckney Treaty with Spain, Whiskey Rebellion

1796 • 1796-1800 -- John Adams elected

1798 • French XYZ affair • Alien and Sedition Acts

1800 • 1800-1804 -- Thomas Jefferson elected