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Delaware's charter in 1701 allowed three of its colonies to create Assemblies.
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In 1706, Board of Trade ordered the officials to veto any paper issues.
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Piladelphia overtook Boston in printing in 1723
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the Protestant revival in Britain and the 13 Colonies. People also started to turn to God more.
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in 1732, Georgia receives a charter.
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In the winter of 1734, Edwards' sermons started to make his congregation get violent
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In 1737, Native leaders to Delaware agreed to sell what one man could walk in one day.
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In 1739, 20 slaves rebelled and marched towards the Spanish for freedom. They killed 2 shopkeepers after raiding for guns.
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In 1740, a law was passed in South Carolina that made it legal to kill a rebellious slave.
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James Davenport, in 1742, told his congregation that he had special knowledge from God and in order to be saved, they either dance and sing in the streets naked or burn all the books he disapproved of.
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by 1750, slavery was legal in all the colonies.
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Georgia allows partial form of slavery in the 1750s.
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Parliament passed an act in 1751 that made businesses refuse colonist's paper money as a viable currency.
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A group of colonists, led by George Washington, killed a French diplomat, which started the seven year's war
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Benjamin Franklin suggested to the Albany Congress that the colonies Union together and form defenses across the continent
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Georgia becomes a royal colony in 1755.
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in 1756, the Seven Year's War begins in Europe when British-allied Frederick II of Prussia invaded the neutral state of Saxony.
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Quakers in Philidelphia disowned people who participated in the slave trade
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during 1760, the colonists began to question their ties to Britain.
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King George III forbade the colonists to settle West of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Britain enacted the Sugar Act to put a tax on sugar and enforced the tax on molasses
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All printed material must have a stamp that costs money.
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By 1766, the Sons of Liberty were present in every colony to organize events, like the protests against the stamp distributors.
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Multiple acts that taxed a variety of things
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A protest that led to five colonist deaths.
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Britain set a tax on tea.
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The colonists dressed up like Indians and dumped an equivalent today of $4 million loss of tea into the Boston harbor
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Britain responded to the Boston Tea Party by passing a series of Acts know as the Intolerable Acts.
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The End of the First Continental Congress meeting on September 5, 1774
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The Continental Congress met for the second time.
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recruited black slaves into the war for the British by freeing slaves that escaped their masters and joined the British army.
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Thomas Paine wrote "Common Sense" in 1776 which sold over 150 thousand copies and encouraged the American Revolution.
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These were made as an aftermath of winning the war
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Congress approved the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776
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General John Burgoyne moves from Canada to capture the Hudson
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British maintained control of Philadelphia and New York.
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French join the Americans in the revolution and fight the British in America and Europe.
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Continental Congress created the Articles of Confederation in 1781
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The Americans won the Revolution with the help of France, Spain ], and Holland on September 3,1783.
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Farmers mad about the debt and property foreclosers the government was issuing. Protested at courthouses mainly.
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12 of the 13 states met at Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation in the summer of 1787.
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The Slave trade would continue for 20 more years, but Georgia and South Carolina had to support the constitutional clause that made it easier to pass commercial legislation.
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federalist papers, written by James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton, were published in newspapers
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Americans heard about the French revolting against their king. They figured they inspired others in Europe.
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Congress approved the charter for the first bank of the United States in 1791.
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Farmers rebelled against the tax set on whiskey.
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Anti-federalist would mean virtually nothing after Washington was elected.
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In November 1794, John Jay signed a “treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation” with the British. Jay’s Treaty, required Britain to abandon its military positions in the Northwest Territory.
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The French Government authorized their ships to attack American trade ships
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These tried to prevent french spies and supervisors from helping French and harming America. These Acts also harmed people who disapproved the president and the federalist party.