TIMELINE

UNIT 3 1750-1800
1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s
Work, Exchange, & American & National

American & National Work, Exchange, &

Identity (NAT)

Identity (NAT)
Patrick Henry publishes 2nd Continental Thomas Paine published
Albany Plan of Union the Virginia Resolves, Phyllis Wheatley publishes Congress (1775) Common Sense (1776)
attempts to unite colonies rejecting Parliamentary Poems on Various Subjects,
(1754) taxation (1765) Religious and Moral (1773) 1st Continental Declaration of Independence
Congress (1774) (1776)
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Environment (GEO) Technology (WXT)

Technology (WXT) Environment (GEO)

1st Bank of the US Est. Eli Whitney invents
(1791) cotton gin, leads to the
expansion of cotton
Hamilton’s Report on production and demand
Manufactures outlines for enslaved labor (1793)
a plan to support
economic growth (1791)
Geography & the

Geography & the

Proclamation of 1763
limits Westward
Expansion (1763)

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Settlement (MIG)

Settlement (MIG)
Naturalization Act of 1790 limits citizenship to “free Whiskey Rebellion highlights tensions over the
Migraiton &

Migraiton &
white persons” residing in the US for at least 2 years power of the federal government (1791-1794)

George Washington elected 1st

President (1789)
Judiciary Act est. the Federal Court
System (1789)
1st Party System emerges with Federalists and
US Constitution Democratic-Republicans (1792-1824)
ratified (1788)
Politics & Power (PCE)

Politics & Power (PCE)

John Adams elected 2nd
The Federalist and President of the US;
Anti-Federalist Papers Jefferson becomes VP
debate the Constitution (1796)
(1787-1788) Washington
asserts federal Washington’s Farewell
Three-Fifths authority in Address (1796)
Royal authorities Compromise (1787)
dissolve response to
States begin the Whiskey Alien and
Massachusetts adopting their own Shays’ Rebellion Great Compromise Sedition Acts alter
Assembly in response reveals Bill of Rebellion
constitutions, often reached (1787) (1794) naturalization and
to resistance to weaknesses Rights deportation laws and
containing a bill of ratified
Townshend Acts rights (1776-1780) Articles of of Articles of Constitutional limit speech against
(1768) Confederation ratified Confederation Convention drafts new (1791) the government
(1781) (1786-1787) US Constitution (1787) (1798)
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French and Indian War (1754-1763) Sugar Act (1764) Townshend Boston Committees of Corre- Lexington and Concord: British defeated at Battle Citizen The Jay Treaty (1794)
Acts (1767) Massacre spondence coordinate 1st battles of the of Yorktown (1781) Genet
Treaty of Paris awards (1770) colonial resistance Revolution (1775)
French possessions to Stamp Act (1765) Affair Naval Act establishes
(1772-1776) Treaty of Paris recognizes (1793- permanent US Navy (1794)
Britain (1763) Stamp Act Homespun
Movement Washington’s surprise U.S. independence (1783) 1794)
Congress Tea Act (1773) attack at Trenton (1776) Pinckney’s Treaty secures
challenge supports
boycott of US navigation rights on the
America in the

America in the
Treaty of Fort
World (WOR)

World (WOR)
Parliament’s Boston Tea Party Mississippi River (1795)
British goods (1773) Continental Army wins Stanwix forces
authority to tax Battle of Saratoga (1777)
(1765) (1767) Iroquois to cede XYZ Affair heightens
Coercive Acts punish land in Ohio River tensions between the US and
Franco-American Treaty Valley (1784)
Massachusetts for Boston secures alliance with France (1797-1798)
Tea Party (1774) French (1778)
Haitian Revolution, inspired in part by the American
Revolution, established first black republic, sparking
fears about enslaved insurrections (1791-1804)

French Revolution, inspired in part by the American

Revolution, sparks debates in the US (1789-1799)
American & Regional

American & Regional

Culture (ARC)

Culture (ARC)
First African Baptist Hector St. John de
Church becomes Crèvecoeur publishes
first official Black Letters from an
congregation in North American Farmer
America (1777) (1782)
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Abigail Adams Vermont Pennsylvania Noah Webster New York
encourages abolishes abolishes publishes The Manumission Society
John Adams to slavery slavery American forms to advocate for
(1777) (1780) Spelling Book abolition and Black
Social Structures

Social Structures
“remember the
ladies” (1776) to promote rights (1785)
an American
(SOC)

(SOC)
Free and enslaved Africans petition education
system (1783) Young Ladies’ Academy
colonial governments for freedom of Philadelphia is first
(1773-1800) school for women’s
education in the US
(1787)

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