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Colonial Times
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Rough First Year For the Colonist
The first year for the colonist was hard ,and rough from coming from England ,to coming to foreign place were the need to start over completely ,and start from the very beginning of tring to survive. -
Harvard
In 1638 Harvard opened its doors for students to learn and obtain an education . Harvard was the first college to be in the English colonies. -
Antislavery law
In 1652 , Rhode Island passed the first antislavery law. However , it did not survive long , beacause Rhode Island shippers made high profits from the slave trade. Georgia had a ban on slavery untill the 1750's and then lifted it. Slavery became legal in all colonies. -
William Penn's Frame
In 1682 , Penn wrote his frame of Government for Pennsylvania. It granted the colonist to settle on land untilthe Native Americans in Pennsylvania were far from perfect. during penn's limetime they were much better in Pennsylvania than other colonies. -
English Bill of Rights
In 1689, King William and Queen Mary signed the English Bill of Rights -
Enslaved Africans escaped
to weaken the English coclonies,in 1693, the Spanish announced that enslaved Africans who escaped to Florida would be protected. They would be given land if they helped to defend the colony. During the 1700's , hundreds of enslaved African Americans fled to Florida -
Religious Revival
An emotion-packed Christian movement swept through the colonies in the 1730's and 1740's. This period of religious revival is called the Great Awakening. The Great Awakening began as a reaction against what some Christians saw as a decline of religious zeal in the colonies. -
Jemmy's revolt
In 1739, an enslaved Angolan named Jemmy led a revolt in South Carolina. He and his followers killed 20 whites before they were defeated Revolts continued to flare up until slavery itself ended in 1865 -
French forts
In 1753 , the French began building forts to back their claim to the land between Lake Erie and the Ohio River. this news alarmed the Virgina Colony , which also claimed the Ohio River valley. The governor of Virgina decided to send soldiers to order the French to leave. -
British soldiers defeated French soldiers
In September 1757, approximately 4,000 British soldiers defeated 4,500 French soldiers on the plains in front of the city. More than 2,000 soldiers were killed or wounded in the battle, including both Wolfe and Montcalm -
Britains first victory
With Pitt's generals in command, the war entered a new phase. In the summer of 1758, Britain scored its first major victory in the war. It captured the fort at Louisbourg. -
Fort Ticonderorga
A daring band of colonist made a surprise attack on Fort Ticonderoga. Led by Ethan Allen he was demanding the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine created a 50 page pamphlet titled Common Sense was published in Philedelphia. This pamphlet inspired the people in all the colonies . Some 500,000 copies of the pamphlet were sold between January and July of 1776 -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a brilliant piece of writing building on ideas of enlightenment, it uses step-by-step logic to explain why the colonist wanted to break away from British rule. -
Free African Americans
Free African Americans were allowed to own property, even in the South. This permitted them to become slaveholders. some free blacks purchased relatives who were enslaved and set them free. Still the lives of free African Americans were restricted. Most African Americian property owners were not allowed to vote or sit on juries
