1700-1800

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  • Charter Allowed Three Most Southern Colonies to Create Own Assembly

  • Privy Council

    Regulated value of foreign coins according to silver content

  • Virginia House of Burgesses

  • Board of Trade

    Ordered royal governors to veto any paper issues
  • George Whitefield is Born

    George Whitefield is Born

  • Period: to

    Great Awakening

  • Georgia Received Charter

  • Currency Act

    Threatened to destabilize the entire colonial economy

  • "A Faithful Narrative of Surprising Work of God"

  • George Whitefield Travels to Georgia for the First Time

  • War Breaks Out

    Oglethorpe and British troops decided to undertake invasion of Florida.

  • Stono Rebellion

  • Jonathan Edwards - "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

    Jonathan Edwards - "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

  • Georgia Allows Limited Form of Slavery

  • Parliament Passed an Act Forbidding Anyone from Accepting as Legal Tender Any Paper Money Issued by New England Colonies

  • Period: to

    French and Indian War

  • Georgia Becomes a Royal Colony

    Georgia Becomes a Royal Colony

  • French Surrender Because They Lost Quebec

  • Treaty of Paris

    All about the money.
  • Proclamation Line

    Proclamation Line

  • Sugar Act

    Replaced Molasses Act of 1733. Vice-admiralty courts

  • Quartering Act

    Each colonial assembly was directed to provide for the basic needs of soldiers stationed within borders.

  • Stamp Act

    First direct tax on American colonies. Taxed items included: wills, newspapers, pamphlets, bills, licenses, almanacs, dice and playing cards.

  • Stamp Act Congress

    Delegates from nine colonies. Petition to the King. Parliament alarmed at violence of colonial protesters.

  • The Declaratory Act

    "Had, hath, and or right ought to have full power and authority to make laws and statures of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever."

  • Townsend Duties

    Taxed paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.

  • Mother Ann Lee Receives a Vision

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

  • Tea Act

    Not enacted to generate revenue. Proposed to give monopoly to East India Company on direct sales to the colonies - Colonists still stuck to buying from the Dutch… no matter how cheap England made its tea.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    30-130 men dressed in Mohawk costumes dumped 347 chests of tea
  • Mother Ann Lee Leads Followers to United States and Establishes a Church Near Albany, New York

    Mother Ann Lee Leads Followers to United States and Establishes a Church Near Albany, New York

  • First Intolerable Act - Boston Port Act

    Closed Boston Port. Placed Massachusetts under military rule.

  • Second Intolerable Act - Massachusetts Government Act

    Ended self-rule by colonists

  • Third Intolerable Act - Administration of Justice Act

    Protects royal officials in Massachusetts

  • Fourth Intolerable Act - Quartering Act of 1774

    All American colonies provide housing for troops in occupied houses, taverns, and unoccupied buildings

  • Quebec Act

    Greatly upset American colonists. England closed the ports going into Boston. Therefore, the other colonists began to send food and resources to Boston. This united the colonies.

  • First Continental Congress

  • Mother Ann Lee Dies

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Second Continental Congress - Philadelphia

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

  • Pennsylvania Constitution

    Abolished property ownership as test of citizenship.

    Protected citizens from imprisonment for debt

  • Thoughts on Government by John Adams

    Sharing of power. Bicameral legislature

  • Thomas Paine's Common Sense Published

  • Congress Unanimously Votes for Independence

  • The Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence

  • Signing of the Declaration of Independence

    Signing of the Declaration of Independence

  • Fight at Brandywine Creek

  • British Occupied Philadelphia

  • Washington's Crossing of the Delaware River

    Washington wanted to boost the moral and the confidence of the Continental Congress. On Christmas night, he and his men went across the Delaware and caught the Hessians off guard. In the end, were were 22 dead, 83 injured, and 686 taken prisoner.

  • France Recognizes Independence of United States

  • Period: to

    Battle of Saratoga

    Turning point of the revolution

  • Treaty of Paris

    British made separate peach treaties with France and Spain.

  • Claude de Jouffroy Invents the First Steamboat

  • Period: to

    Shay's Rebellion

  • Call of Convention in Philadelphia

  • Judiciary Act

    Established a federal judiciary system
  • George Washington Becomes President

    George Washington Becomes President

  • Second Great Awakening

  • Bill of Rights Written and Ratified

  • Period: to

    Whiskey's Rebellion

  • First Bank of the United States

  • Eli Whitney Invents Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney Invents Cotton Gin

  • Jay's Treaty

    Compensate ships seized. Open trade in India. Evacuate Western forts. No word of impressment.
  • John Adams Becomes President

    John Adams Becomes President

  • George Washington Dies

  • Lyman Beecher Becomes an Ordained Presbyterian Minister