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New York had more enslaved people than any other American city which increased tensions and fear in the colony. This led to several dozen enslaved people revolting. They started fires and killed many Whites. The militia captured and executed 27 enslaved people. New York then passed a city-wide black code that strictly regulated both free and enslaved Blacks.
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American colonies experienced a revival of spiritual zeal designed to restore the importance of emotion in the religious realm. Hundreds of new Christian congregations were founded. Worries about the decline of religious fervor sparked a series of revivals known as the Great Awakening. This led to popular new denominations like Baptists and Methodists. The Awakening was the first popular movement that affected all thirteen colonies.
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On a Sunday while White families were at church, about 20 African born slaves attacked a store in Stono, South Carolina. They seized weapons and killed two shop keepers. They moved south and gathered more recruits. In a few days they burned six plantations and killed about twenty four Whites. They continued to free slaves as they moved south. Then militiamen caught up with them and killed most.
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Ended in British victory. Conflict started over competition for the Ohio River Valley between the French and British. The French built forts in the Ohio Country and eventually gained undisputed control over it after many battles against the British. Washington's expedition became a massive world war 2 years later.
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During the spring and summer of 1776, around 90 local governments, towns, and colonial legislatures issued declarations of independence from Britain. In July, 56 members of Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, creating the United States of America.
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Parliament voted to begin negotiations to end the Revolutionary war. Congress sent a group of prominent Americans- John Adams, John Jay, and Benjamin Franklin- to Paris to discuss terms. 8 years after the start of the war, the warring nations signed the Treaty of Paris. Great Britain recognized the independence of the 13 colonies and agreed the Mississippi River was America's western boundary.
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Whitney invents the machine which enabled the separation of seeds from cotton fibers. It increased the production of cotton and therefore promoted the use of slave labor for cotton cultivation.
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Alexander Hamilton's tax on Whiskey ignited resistance among cash-poor farmers. A mob of angry farmers threatened to assault nearby Pittsburgh, loot the homes of the rich, and set the town on fire. Washington ordered the rebels to disperse or he would interfere. The rebels didn't respond, so Washington sent 13,000 militiamen. The army scared the rebels who vanished into the hills.
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Adams won the election of 1796 with seventy one electoral votes. Jefferson, is opponent, became vice president.
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The Quasi-War was a by-product of French anger over Jay's Treaty between the U.S. and Great Britain. The navies of both nations were capturing U.S. ships which broke diplomatic relations with the U.S. After the X,Y, Z affair, Federalists voted to construct warships and triple the size of the U.S. army. By 1798, France and America were engaged in a undeclared naval war.