| Late Colonial Era Items: Boston
Tea Party - 1773 (Dec.); Intolerable
Acts - 1774 (arrive in May); First Continental
Congress - 1774 (Sept.) |
| 1. Lexington/Concord fighting - 1775
(April) ...city of Boston. |
| 2. Second Continental Congress - 1775
(May) ...could be avoided. |
| 3. Common Sense published - 1776
(Jan.) ...opinion toward independence. |
| 4. Independence declared - 1776
(July) ...by Thomas Jefferson. |
| 5. Valley Forge Camp - Winter,
1777-78 About one quarter
of the... |
| 6. Victory at Yorktown - 1781
(Oct.) The French navy
was... |
| 7. Treaty of Paris - 1783
...at the Mississippi River. |
| 8. Constitutional Convention - 1787
(Summer) ...Articles of Confederation. |
| 9. Constitution ratified - 1788
(June) ...the government must
follow. |
| 10. George Washington inaugurated -
1789 (April) ...the father
of our country. |
| 11. Bill of Rights ratified - 1791
(Dec.) ...solid protection
from... |
| 12. Proclamation of Neutrality - 1793
...Great Britain and France. |
| 13. John Adams elected - 1796
(Nov.) ...avoiding war
with France. |
| 14. Sedition Act - 1798
...officials a crime. |
| 15. Jefferson elected - 1800
...loud critics of the... |
