Unit 3 Important Dates

  1. 1754: Albany Congress

  2. 1763: Treaty of Paris 1

  3. 1763: Pontiac’s Rebellion

  4. 1763: Proclamation of 1763

  5. 1764: Sugar Act & Currency Act

  6. 1765: Stamp Act

  7. 1765: Stamp Act Congress

  8. 1766: Declaratory Act

  9. 1767: Townshend Acts

  10. 1770: Boston Massacre

  11. 1772: Committees of Correspondence

  12. 1773: Tea Act & Boston Tea Party

  13. 1774: Coercive / Intolerable Acts

  14. 1774: First Continental Congress

  15. 1775: Battles of Lexington and Concord

  16. 1775: Second Continental Congress

  17. 1776: Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

  18. 1776: Declaration of Independence

  19. 1777: Battle of Saratoga

  20. 1781: Battle of Yorktown

  21. 1781: Articles of Confederation Ratified

  22. 1783: Treaty of Paris 2

  23. 1784: Treaty of Fort Stanwix

  24. 1785: Land Ordinance of 1785

  25. 1786–1787: Shays’s Rebellion

  26. 1787: Northwest Ordinance

  27. 1787–1788: Publication of The Federalist Papers

  28. 1788: U.S. Constitution Ratified

  29. 1791: Bill of Rights Ratified

  30. 1791: Hamilton’s Bank of the United States

  31. 1794: Whiskey Rebellion

  32. 1794: Jay’s Treaty

  33. 1795: Pinckney’s Treaty (Treaty of San Lorenzo)

  34. 1796: Washington’s Farewell Address

  35. 1798: Alien and Sedition Acts & Virginia/Kentucky Resolutions