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Smallpox Inoculation Introduced
In 1721, a smallpox epidemic in Boston occurred and inoculation was introduced. It has been said that the inoculation in Boston was under the influence of England, but it has been shown this is not correct. BECAUSE The practice of inoculation developed in many parts of the world, often as part of a system of folk medicine. -
Jonathan Edwards begins Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards was an early American philosopher and minister who was involved in the 18th century religious revival known as the Great Awakening. His sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God warned sinners that they were going to Hell unless they repented and asked Christ for mercy. BECAUSE he used new lights to spread his belief. -
George Whitfield spreads Great Awakening
Whitefield spoke against established clergy, spreading a message of democratic religion that relied upon commoners to grow and continue. His words were a major part of the First Great Awakening. BECAUSE it was most important event in American religion during the eighteenth century: series of emotional religious revivals that spread across the American colonies. -
Seven Years' War (French and Indian War)
A war fought in the middle of the eighteenth century between the German kingdom of Prussia, supported by Britain, and an alliance that included Austria, France, and Russia. Prussia and Britain won, and their victory greatly increased their power. BECAUSE it helped bring out the American Revolution. -
Britain vetoes South Carolin anti-slave trade measures
South Carolina wanted to stop new slaves from coming into the state to prevent an uprising but the British vetoed this because the wanted sugar from the plantations. -
Sugar Act
On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act 1733, which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. BECAUSE it represented a significant change in policy: whereas previous colonial taxes had been levied to support local British officials, the tax on sugar was enacted solely to refill Parliament's empty Treasury.
