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1430
Columbus
Columbus' expidition -
Jamestown
Jamestown founded -
Pilgrims
First pilgrims in Plymouth -
Bacon's rebellion
armed rebellion by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against Governer William Berkeley -
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Great Awakening
A series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and the colonies -
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French and Indian War
Seven Years' War; the war in America in which France and its Indian allies opposed England 1754–60: ended by Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
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Sugar and Stamp act controversies
The Sugar Act was passed in 1764 and the Stamp Act was passed a year later in 1765. Both were designed to raise revenue for the British. -
Declaratory Act
declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Ac -
Townshend Act
acts of the British Parliament in 1767, especially the act that placed duties on tea, paper, lead, paint, etc., imported into the American colonies -
Boston Massacre
a riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons. -
Boston Tea Party
a raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor (December 16, 1773) in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company -
Revolution begins with fighting at Lexington and Concord
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Declaration of Independence
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French join war against British
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Battle of Yorktown
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Articles of Confederation Ratified
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Shays' Rebellion
An uprising led by a former militia officer, Daniel Shays, which broke out in western Massachusetts in 1786. Shays's followers protested the foreclosures of farms for debt and briefly succeeded in shutting down the court system