hamilton test Flashcards
10th of February 1763
signing of the treaty of Paris
7th october 1763
proclamation of 1763
5 april 1764
sugar act
22 march 1765
stamp act
30 may 1765
virginian resolution
7-25 october 1765
stamp act congress
1 october 1768
british troops arrive in Boston in response to political unrest
5 march 1770
boston massacre
10 may 1773
tea act
16 december 1773
Boston tea party
may to june 1774
intolerable acts
september 1774
continental congress
16 june 1775
continental congress appoints George Washington commander-in-chief of continental army
9 january 1776
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense published anonymously in Philly
2 may 1776
France provides covert aids to the Americans
4 july 1776
Continental congress issues the Declaration of Independence
6 february 1778
France recognises US independence
18 october 1781
surrender of british forces under Cornwallis at Yorktown
3 September 1783
treaty of paris formally ending the revolutionary war
25 may 1787
adoption of the american constitution (constitutional convention)