Unit 5 timeline

  • Philadelphia Quakers found first anti-slavery society

    This plays a big part in our nation. People adopt the ideology that colored people and slaves are equal to other humans. This plays a major role in the Civil war a century later.
  • Philadelphia Quakers found first anti-slavery society

    This allows the idea of equality and freedom to spread. It is this mindset of slave freedom that plays a big role on our future a century later during the U.S. Civil War.
  • Declaration of Independence

    America declares independence from Britain and is now considered its own nation making it an event of high importance
  • New Jersey temporarily gives women vote rights

    This will make women want to fight to keep voting rights by protest and have the idea of women's suffrage on the table,
  • Cornwallis' surrender at the Battle of Yorktown

    This event marked a big blow to Britain played a big part in American victory and maintaining its already declared independence.
  • Treaty of Paris

    This treaty marked the end of the Revolutionary War. America no longer has to defend its independence from Britain. It is an independent young nation with a lot to achieve.