1700-1800

By EHarlow

  • Reverend Francis Le Jua arrived as a missionary in Charles Town, Carolina.

  • The Yamasee, Carolina's closest allies and most lucrative trading partners, turned against the colony and nearly destroyed in entirely.

  • The Walking Purchase.

    The Walking Purchase of 1737 was emblematic of both colonists' desire for cheap land and the changing relationship between Pennsylvanians and the Native neighbors.

  • Stono Rebellion.

  • A new law stated that killing a rebellious slave was not a crime and even the murder of a slave was treated as a minor misdemeanor.

  • Authorities uncovered another planned rebellion by African slaves, free blacks and poor whites.

  • James Davenport, a preacher from Connecticut, persuaded his congregation that he had special knowledge from God.

    He taught that, to be saved, you must dance naked in circles at night while screaming or laughing. Or they could burn book he did not approve of.
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    Seven Years' War.

  • Fort William Henry was attacked and burned.

  • Frederick's army defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Leuthen.

  • British captured Quebec.

  • King George III took the Crown.

  • Neolin, a prophet, received a vision from his religion's main deity, known as the Master of Life.

  • British Crown issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763.

  • Parliament passed the Sugar Act.

  • Parliament passed the Currency Act.

  • Parliament passed the Stamp Act.

  • Townshend Acts.

  • Philadelphia overtook Boston as the the center of colonial printing.

  • Parliament passed the Tea Act.

  • The First Continental Congress convened.

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    The War for Independence.

  • British regiments set out to seize local militias' arms and powder stores in Lexington and Concord.

  • Congress voted on a resolution calling all colonies that had not already established revolutionary governments to do so and to wrest control from royal officials.

  • The Congress approved the document, the Declaration of Independence.

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    Valley Forge.

    The single winter at Valley Forge caused the death of over 2,500 Americans, because of disease and exposure.

  • A Treaty of Amity and Commerce.

  • Delegates were sent to a constitutional convention in Cambridge.

  • Massachusetts's constitution was passed.

  • The Continental Congress ratified the Articles of Confederation.

  • Thousands of Loyalist former slaves fled with the British army.

  • Peace negotiations took place in France, and the war came to an official end on September 3, 1783.

  • Congress announced that a majority of states had ratified the Constitution and that the document was now in effect.

  • Thousands of people gathered in New York to see George Washington take the presidential oath of office.

  • Ten amendments were added to the Constitution (Bill of Rights).

  • Congress approved a twenty-year charter for the Bank of the United States.

  • Alexander Hamilton proposed a federal excise tax on the production, sale, and consumption of a number of goods, including alcohol.

  • The First Amendment was ratified.

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    Whiskey Rebellion.

    Alexander Hamilton's whiskey tax placed a burden on western farmers. The whiskey tax seemed to divide the new republic in half. It was divided between the East and West, economically between merchants and farmers, and culturally between cities and the countryside.

  • Jay's Treaty.

    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 (specifically Fort Detroit, Fort Mackinac, and Fort Niagara) by 1796.

  • Alien and Sedation Acts.

    The Alien Act allowed the federal government to deport anyone who seemed to pose a threat to national security. The Sedation Act allowed the federal government to prosecute anyone found to be speaking or publishing wrong facts, scandalous accusations, and evil writing against the government.