17th and 18th century (1600 - 1800)

1791 - 1794 Whiskey Rebellion

1791 BCE

This rebellion made farmers revolt against taxes on grain in whiskey. It grew until George Washington had to dispatch troops to quell the rebellion.

1790 Population and Productivity

1790 BCE

The 1790 population was 3,929,214; Samuel Hopkins was the first patent that was signed by George Washington, and Potash is the third major plant or crop for nutrients which is what Hopkins grew.

1786 - 1787 Shays Rebellion

1787 BCE

The revolt against high taxes and deflation in Massachusetts. George Washington signed the first national bank to manage the Revolutionary War debt.

1765 Stamp Act

1765 BCE

It included taxation,newspapers,playing cards, and dice. They organized an Underground operation specifically to boycott British goods.

1764 Parliamentary Acts

1764 BCE

Parliamentary acts were passed and put into action by England in the 17th - 18th century in 1764 the British passed additional acts that heavily taxed the colonies and led to a rebellion.

Agriculture in Virginia

1732 BCE

In Virginia Tabacco was an important money crop. It allowed the expansion of agriculture through the profit of tobacco. They would export timber, corn, wheat, peas, pork, cotton and more.

1700's Colonial Farming Technologies

1700 BCE

During the 1700s farming technologies consisted of oxen and horses for power, crude wood plows, all sowing by hand cultivating by hoe, and hay and grain cutting with sickle.

1619 First African slaves brought to Virginia

1619 BCE

1619, slaves from Angola in West Central Africa were turned into southern indentured servants.

1607 - Jamestown settled

1607 BCE

The Settlers were dying until Sir John Rolfe Brought tobacco seeds which turned the colony profitable.