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England passes the Navigation Act.
In 1651, England passed the navigation act that forbid goods to be imported from the colonies to England in non-English ships or from locations other than where they were produced. https://study.com/academy/lesson/british-navigation-acts-of-1651-definition-purpose-summary.html -
The great fire of London
The great fire of London was a disaster waiting to happen. The death toll was unknown and the homes of 70,000 people were destroyed. The fire started at a bakery on Pudding Lane shortly after midnight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London -
King Phillips War
King Phillips War of 1675-1676 marked the last major effort by the I Indians of Southern New England to drive out English settlers. -
The Glorious Revolution
Replaced the reigning king, James ll with the joint monarchy of his protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William of Orange. -
African trade
The Royal African trade company loses its slave trade monopoly, spurring colonists in New England to engage in slave trading for profit. -
The Great Storm
An Atlantic hurricane, ravages Southern England and the English channel, killing at least 8,000 mostly at sea and destroying homes in it's path. -
Molasses Act
In American colonial history, a British law that imposed a tax on molasses, sugar, and rum imported from non-British foreign colonies into the North American colonies. -
The French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the seven years war -
Declaration of Independence
By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the continental congress on July 4th, 1776 the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. -
United States and Great Britain
The United Declared war on Great Britain in reaction to three issues the blockade of France, the induction of thousands of neutral American seamen into the British royal navy against their will, and the British support of hostile Indian tribes along the Great Lakes frontier. -
The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise—also referred to as the Compromise of 1820—was an agreement between the pro- and anti-slavery factions regulating slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in new states north of the border of the Arkansas territory, excluding Missouri. -
Slavery in 1830
By 1830 slavery was primarily located in the South, where it existed in many different forms. African Americans were enslaved on small farms, large plantations, in cities and towns, inside homes, out in the fields, and in industry and transportation. -
The Fugitive slave act of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. ... Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves. -
Slavery in 1860
When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 election on a platform of halting the expansion of slavery, seven states broke away to form the Confederacy. The first six states to secede held the greatest number of slaves in the South. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
The first enforcement act
Between 1870 and 1871 Congress passed the Enforcement Acts -- criminal codes that protected blacks' right to vote, hold office, serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws. If the states failed to act, the laws allowed the federal government to intervene.