American Revolution Timeline- Freedom for All?

 

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1251

á  Magna Carta

 

1689-1754

á  WilliamÕs War; Queen Anne's War; British War with Spain

 

1756-63

á  Seven Years' War. (French and Indian War) The French leave North America

1764

á  Sugar Act (revenue for Seven Years' War)

 

1765

á  Stamp Act: riots in Boston; Stamp Act Congress in New York City

á  Quartering Act (Result of Seven Years War): contributes to fear of tyranny in 1766

 

1766

á  Declaratory Act affirms Parliamentary supremacy

á  Sons of Liberty organize boycott of British goods; Stamp Act repealed

 

1767

á  Townshend Duties on glass, lead, paper, etc. and tea

á  Sam Adams calls for boycott. Duties repealed in 1770 except for tea

 

1770

á  Boston Massacre (ÒCrispus AttucksÓ)

 

1772

á  Lord Mansfield, Chief Justice of the King's Bench abolishes slavery in England

 

1773

á  Tea Act: reduces some duties but gives the East India Co. the right to bypass American merchants and sell directly to colonial consumers.

á  Boston Tea Party

 

1774

á  Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts): close Boston port, limit provincial representation, protect British offices, quartering of troops. Fulfills fears of conspiracy/tyranny/ enslavement.

á  First Continental Congress convenes (w/o GA): S and J. Adams (MA), Patrick Henry (VA)

 

1775

á  April          Lexington and Concord:

á  May           Second Continental Congress

á  June           Bunker Hill

á  Nov.          Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, emancipates the slaves to fight colonial rebel who have run him out of Williamsburg. By December 1, about 300 runaways were carrying muskets and wearing the garb of Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment, the words "Liberty to Slaves" emblazoned on their chests. (See< http://www.americanrevolution.org/blk.html>

á  Dec.           PaineÕs Common Sense

 

1775-81

á  War of Independence: Washington retreats- a guerilla war of attrition (NYC held by British, 1776-83)

 

1776

á  Declaration of Independence (omitted paragraph)

á  Abigail Adams ÒRemember the LadiesÓ

 

1777

á  General Washington calls for the enlistment of Freemen. Southerners resist arming African Americans

á  5,000 free blacks will serve in the Continental Army and Navy

 

1778

á  1st Rhode Island Regiment: 250 former slaves; Samuel Middleton, the only black commissioned officer

 

1780

á  British Southern strategy: Savannah, Charleston fall to British

á  4th Connecticut Regiment: The first all black unit: 48 African American privates and NCOs- white officers

 

1781

á  The Marquis de Lafayette, a French general assisting Washington, uses the slave James Armistead as a double agent to spy on the British Lord Cornwallis.

á  Washington, Rochambeau and Lafayette prevail at Yorktown, VA. The 1st Rhode Island Regiment is instrument in the victory

 

1783