1700-1800

By Jacob Parkman

  • Virginia House of Burgesses passes its first comprehensive slave code law.

  • A group of ministers in New England published a pamphlet titled "Early Piety"

    The booklet was comprised of sermons by the group of ministers.

  • New York Slave Revolt of 1712

    This uprising causes the death of several white colonists.

  • Benjamin Franklin arrives in Philadelphia

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    The Great Awakening

  • Stono Rebellion

    A group of about eighty slaves travel towards Spanish Florida, killing white settlers as they go.
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    Reverend George Whitefield traveled between colonies with a Calvinist message of personal responsibility and conversion

  • British colonists kill a French diplomat with the aid of their Native American allies

    This killing jump-started the Seven Years' War.
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    The Seven Years' War

  • Frederick II of Prussia invaded Saxony

  • The French burned Fort William Henry to the ground

  • England's German allies surrendered to the French following the Battle of Hastenbeck

  • Austrians defeat the Prussians in the Battle of Kolin

  • Frederick's forces overpowered the Austrians at the Battle of Leuthen

  • Quakers in Pennsylvania disown members of their religious order who owned slaves.

  • General Braddock attacks Fort Duquesne and is repelled

  • General Abercrombie attacks the French Fort Carillon and is repelled

  • The British took control of the French fortress of Louisbourg

  • French general Louis-Joseph de Montcalm was defeated in the battle of the Plains of Abraham by British General James Wolfe

  • The British defeat the French at the Battle of Minden

  • The British capture Montreal

  • Native American prophet Neolin experiences a vision instructing him to expel British from Indian lands

  • Peace treaties of Paris and Hubertusburg

    These treaties formally ended the Seven Years' War.

  • Chief Pontiac and his forces attempt to conquer Fort Detroit

  • The British Monarchy issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763

    This proclamation provided for a more intensive regulation of activity on Indian lands.
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    Pontiac's War

  • Sugar Act is passed by parliament

  • The Stamp Act is passed by Parliament

  • The Virginia Resolves are passed by the House of Burgesses

    These Resolves said that colonists had a right to the same privileges as the citizens of Great Britain.

  • British Parliament passes the Declaratory Act

  • Pontiac settles for peace with British officials

  • British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act

  • The Townshend Act are passed by Parliament

    The main function of these acts was to place taxes on luxury items imported into America from Great Britain.

  • England sends troops to Boston to enforce the new taxation acts

  • Parliament repeals all duties except for the tea tax

  • Boston Massacre

    The event left five Bostonians dead.

  • Parliament passes acts to aid the East India Company

  • Parliament passes the Regulating Act

  • Parliament Passes the Teat Act

    This Act allows the East India Company to import tea into the colonies without import duties.

  • Tea was dumped in the harbor of Charleston, Philadelphia, and New York

  • Parliament passes the four Intolerable Acts

    These acts shut down the Boston Port, put the Massachusetts colonial government under British control, undermined the authority of the Massachusetts court system, and violated the privacy of the homes of Massachusetts colonists by forcing them to board British soldiers.

  • Patriots create the Provincial Congress

  • Committees of correspondence or extralegal assemblies are established by the majority of the colonies

    These committees and assemblies were formed to organize the appropriate response to the Intolerable Acts

  • First Continental Congress convenes

  • "Declaration of Rights and Grievances" is issued by the Continental Congress

    This documents reiterates the beliefs of the colonists that they are entitled to the same rights as their British counterparts.

  • Battle at Lexington

  • British regiments attempt to seize arms in Concord and Lexington

  • British forces arrived at New York

  • The British launch attacks on Manhattan and Brooklyn, forcing the Continental Army to retreat

  • Thomas Paine's Pamphlet "Common Sense" is published

  • The Continental Congress calls on all colonies to wrest control from royal officials

  • Continental Congress approves the Declaration of Independence

  • Washington leads a successful attack on camp Trenton

  • The British shift their campaigns to the Southern colonies

  • The Treaty of Amity and Commerce was signed by the French

  • The Continental Army defeats British General Burgoyne's men at Saratoga, New York

  • The Continental Congress ratifies the Articles of Confederation

  • The Revolutionary War comes to an official end

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    Shays' Rebellion

  • New England and the South agreed to the "dirty compromise"

    This was a constitutional provision that allows the slave trade to continue for twenty years in exchange for a constitutional clause that allows Congress to pass commercial legislation more easily .

  • The Constitution is ratified

  • George Washington is inaugurated as the first President of the United States

  • The Bill of Rights is added to the Constitution

  • Congress approves a twenty-year charter for the Bank of the United States

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    Whiskey Rebellion