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Date
Period
Period 3 (1754-1800) Timeline of Major Events
Key Concepts: British imperial attempts to reassert control over its colonies and the colonial reaction to these attempts
produced a new American republic, along with struggles over the new nation’s social, political, and economic identity.
 3.1: British attempts to assert tighter control over its North American colonies and the colonial resolve to pursue
self-government led to a colonial independence movement and the Revolutionary War.
 3.2: The American Revolution’s democratic and republican ideals inspired new experiments with different forms
of government.
 3.3: Migration within North America and competition over resources, boundaries, and trade intensified conflicts
among peoples and nations.
Event/Date:
(If the date is not provided,
you must find it! [when
applicable])
Seven Year’s War
Albany Plan of Union
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Stamp Act Congress
Description/Significance:
(Make sure to include WHY the event is significant as well as the factual information)
Sons and Daughters
of Liberty
Declaratory Act
The Townshend Acts
Dickinson’s Letters
From a Farmer in
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Circular Letter
Repeal of the
Townshend Acts
Boston Massacre
Committees of
Correspondence
Boston Tea Party
Coercive Acts
Quebec Act
First Continental
Congress
Lord Dunmore’s War
Lexington and
Concord
Second Continental
Congress
Bunker Hill
Olive Branch Petition
Common Sense
Declaration of
Independence
Patriots
Loyalists (Tories)
Battle of Trenton
Battle of Saratoga
Valley Forge
Murray’s “On the
Equality of the Sexes”
Philipsburg
Proclamation
Battle of Yorktown
(include structure, powers, accomplishments and problems)
Articles of
Confederation
Treaty of Paris
Separation of Church
and State
Annapolis Convention
Shay’s Rebellion
United States
Constitution
Great Compromise
Three-Fifths
Compromise
Commercial
Compromise
Electoral College
The Federalist Papers
Ratification of the
Constitution
Northwest Ordinance
of 1787
(cause and effect; do not define all 10 amendments )
Bill of Rights
President
Event and Significance:
Washington’s Cabinet (1789)
Judiciary Act of 1789
Hamilton’s “Report on the Public Credit” (1790)
George Washington
(1789-1797)
Creation of the National Bank (1790)
Proclamation of Neutrality (1793)
Jay Treaty (1794)
Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794)
Whiskey Rebellion (1794)
Treaty of Greenville (1795)
Pinckney Treaty (1795)
Public Land Act of 1796
Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
XYZ Affair (1797-98)
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1799)
John Adams
Federalist
(1797-1801)
Election of 1800