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Colonial Times
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The Enlightenment
A group of European thinkers came to believe that all problems could be solved by humman reason. Some of the ideas came from John Locke -
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Spanish and Portuguese brought the first Aficans to the Americans. Captives were forcedto march as far as 300 miles to the coast. -
Puritan Beginnings
They passed laws to promote education. They started school in the late 1800s. -
Freedom of the Press
The colonists expected to enjoy the traditional rights of english subjests. John Peter Zenger got arrested for printing a series of articles that critized the governer. -
The French and Indian War Begins
French began building forts to back their claim to the land between Lake Erie and Ohio River. -
The Quatering Act
The purpose for it is to save money. The act required colonists to quarter, or house, British troops provided everything for them. -
The Surgar Act
The British effort to impose new taxes on the colonies began when Parliament passed the surgar act, which put a duty on several products, including molasses. -
The Boston Massacare
Governor Thomas Hutchinson tried to calm things down by having the nine soliders involved in the shooting arrested and tried to murder. -
A Dispute Over Tea
With every cup they drank they were paying a tax that Parliament had placed on them without their consent. -
The Boston Tea Party
On Monday morning, the 29th of November, 1773, a handbill was posted all over Boston Scarring people . -
The battle of bunker hill
The colonists occupied Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill, two high points near Chales Town, which was across the harbor from Boston. -
The Shot Heard Round the World
A larger battle took place in nearby Concord. Two men, Paul Revere and William Dawes, then rode through the night to warm the minutemen. -
An Important American Victory
The same day the Second Continental Congress began meeting an impotrant battle took place in northern New York. -
Invading Canada
While Washingto was training one army outside Boston, two other American armies were moving north into Canada -
the Declalaration of independce
the person who wrote this is is Thomas Jefferson it was for the congress.
