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1701 Population of the British colonies: approximately 275,000. Boston, the largest city, has about 7000 inhabitants.
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1705 Massachusetts prohibits marriages between whites and blacks.
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January: South Carolina settlers, aided by Cherokees, defeat the Yamassee Indians, and move southward into lands claimed by Spain
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The Great Awakening begins in New England, ignited by Jonathan Edwards, who sermons in Northampton, Mass., emphasize human depravity and divine omnipotence.
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George Whitefield, a Methodist preacher, arrives from England, and preaches from New England to Georgia.
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George II grants James Oglethorpe a charter for Georgia to serve as a buffer against Spain and as a haven for debtors. Georgia was the only one of the original 13 colonies to forbid slavery.
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Benjamin Franklin publishes his Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, perhaps the most influential essay written by an American colonist.
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30-year-old Benjamin Banneker, an African American, constructs the first clock made entirely in the American colonies.
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Population of the British colonies: approximately 1,610,000.
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Parliament's Stamp Act would lead to the American Revolution and help create revolutionary leaders such as Patrick Henry and the Sons of Liberty
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Samuel Adams, John Hancock and the Sons of Liberty fomented rebellion through acts like the Boston Tea Party, eventually leading to the American Revolution.
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The Boston Massacre and the Liberty pole riot jump started the American Revolution and helped produce heroes like Paul Revere in the Revolutionary War.
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Boston Tea Party, a result of the Townshend Revenue Act, led to the American Revolution
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The Continental Congress paved the way for the American Revolution by resisting the Intolerable Acts, and led by men such as Patrick Henry, Sam Adams, John Adams, and George Washington created a new nation, the United States.
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Concord and Lexington started the Revolutionary War, after Paul Revere's ride, a heroic act of the American Revolution.
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George Washington was appointed leader of the Continental Army, while the Battle of Bunker Hill became the first full scale military battle of the Revolutionary War at the beginning of the American Revolution.
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Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense outlining the importance of the American Revolution
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Washington crosses the Delaware in 1776 establishing George Washington as a true hero and leader during the Revolutionary War, while the importance of the American Revolution is written about by Thomas Paine.
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The Declaration of Independence, which started the American Revolution and would become the foundation for the U.S. constitution while establishing the country's Independence Day, was written by Thomas Jefferson, as a fundamental doctrine of civil rights and was signed on July 4th.
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Betsy Ross sews the flag of the American Revolution
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The Colonies' Revolutionary War turns around at the Battle of Saratoga, beginning the march to a successful American Revolution built on the backbone of the colonial militia.
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From the darkest days of Valley Forge in the second year of the Revolutionary War, the American Revolution and its military leaders like George Washington and Baron Frederick Von Steuben, as well as heroines like Mary Ludwig Hayes - Molly Pitcher - never gave up on the ideal of freedom and as a result, battles like the Battle of Monmouth would be won by the colonies.
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George Rogers Clark during the American Revolution, the Revolutionary War, led an attack on Kaskaskia at the bidding of Patrick Henry, in order to secure the Old Northwest Territory for the colonies.
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Yorktown ended the Revolutionary War, but only after military leaders of the American Revolution, under the command of George Washington, defeated the British at Cowpens, and sent British general Lord Cornwallis into retreat to Virginia.
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The Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolution
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The Continental Congress enacts the Land Ordinance Acts for the Old Northwest Territory.
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Shays' Rebellion, led by Daniel Shays, leads to a new U.S. Constitution
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The Constitution replaces the, Articles of Confederation, when leaders such as George Washington, Ben Franklin and James Madison, meet to write a new U.S. Constitution, with the support of Thomas Jefferson and the authors of the Federalist Papers
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George Washington is the first U.S. President and John Adams is the vice president.
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The Bill of Rights, written by James Madison, presents Constitutional amendments, guaranteeing among others, Freedom of Press, Freedom of Religion, and Freedom of speech.
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Benjamin Franklin, diplomat, statesman and scientist, is also the author of Poor Richard's Almanac
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The Fugitive Slave Act would be used as a bargaining chip for passage of the Bill of Rights, but it would promote Slavery, the buying and selling of slaves, in order to get Americans' cherished Civil Rights into the Constitution.
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The election of John Adams as President founded America's Two-party system, as the former Vice President, created dissidents - Republicans, and supporters - Federalists.
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The U.S.S. Constitution helped set in motion an American Navy and Marine Corps
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The Sedition Act, and Alien Acts disrupt American Civil Rights