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Delaware separates from Pennsylvania becoming a new colony.
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Queen Anne's War begins.
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The Province of Carolina separates into North Carolina and South Carolina.
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The first black slaves are brought to the Louisiana territory.
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The Great Awakening religious revival movement begins with Jonathan Edwards, a Congregationalist clergyman, preaching a series of sermons in Northampton, Massachusetts. Over the next ten years the revival, led by Edwards and George Whitefield, will sweep all of the American colonies
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Benjamin Franklin invents a type of stove.
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Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning conductor
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The French and Indian War begins between the British colonists and the French. Both sides ally with various Indian tribes.
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The British win the French and Indian War and gain a significant amount of territory in North America including Florida.
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The Sugar Act is passed as a means of raising revenue from the colonists.
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The British government passes the Stamp Act taxing the colonies. The Quartering Act is also passed allowing British troops to be housed in private homes.
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The Boston Massacre occurs.
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Bostonian colonists protest the Tea Act with the Boston Tea Party.
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The First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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The Revolutionary War begins.
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Lexington and Concord
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On 4 July the Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Continental Congress.
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The surrender of a British army encouraged France to openly join the conflict.
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Massachusetts adopts a bill of rights that applies to blacks and whites equally.
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British General Cornwallis surrenders to revolutionary and French troops.
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The end of major British military operations in America.
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The Treaty of Paris ends the Revolutionary War.
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Presidency of George Washington.
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Presidency of John Adams.