1700-1800

  • House of Burgesses passed its first comprehensive slave code

  • Reverend Francis Le Jau

    Arrived in Charles Town, Carolina
  • Benjamin Franklin invents electricity

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    French and Indian War

  • The Proclamation of 1763

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    Pontiac's Rebellion

  • Sugar Act

  • Stamp Act

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    Townshend Acts

  • Boston Massacre

  • Boston Tea Party

  • First Continental Congress

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    The American Revolutionary War

  • George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River

  • United States Declaration of Independence

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    Battle of Saratoga and Franco-American Alliance

  • Articles of Confederation

  • Treaty of Paris

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    Shays’ Rebellion

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • George Washington was elected the 1st U.S. President

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    French Revolution

  • United States Bill of Rights

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    The Whiskey Rebellion

  • John Adams Presidency