Colonial wars between France and England. Reorganization of the empire. American Revolution. State governments. Confederation.
French and Indian War = Seven Years' War (1754-1763)
Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act (1764)
Quartering Act = Mutiny Act (1765)
Stamp Act (1765), Stamp Act Congress (1765), Sons of Liberty, non-importation agreements, Declaratory Act (1766)
Townshend duties (1767)
Boston Massacre (1770), Samuel Adams, committees of correspondence
Tea Act (1773), Boston Tea Party (1773), Coercive Acts (1774)
First Continental Congress (1774)
American Revolution = War of Independence (1775-1783)
Second Continental Congress (1775), George Washington
Thomas Paine's Common Sense (1775)
Declaration of Independence (1776), Thomas Jefferson
State constitutions (1775-1784)
Articles of Confederation (1777, ratified 1778-1781)
Northwest Ordinance (1787)
Shay's Rebellion (1787)
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