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The Royal Colony of New Jersey was founded in this year.
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Virginia Slave Code was passed in October of this year
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The Tuscarora War begun in North Carolina between English and German Colonies and the Southern Tuscarora and their allies
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Declared war after skirmishes between New England Colonists and Wabanaki Confederacy.
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This battle lead to peace treaties between the two sides of the war.
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First battle began with a raid of Canso by New France
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Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle was signed ending the war.
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Benjamin Franklin invented the Lightning Rod.
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This war was fought between the French and British colonies with their Mother countries and Native allies.
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This treaty ended the French and Indian war.
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King George III limits Westward Expansion of the Colonies.
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The Stamp Act is repealed.
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This happened when when British soldiers shot into a Boston mob. First to fall was Crispus Attucks.
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The Townshend Acts were repealed by British Parliament.
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It was a protest against the tax on tea, it was more about the taxation without representation. Men from Boston dumped tea into the ocean.
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Parliament closes the Port of Boston in response of the Boston Tea Party.
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Was held in held at Carpenter's Hall. Located in Philadelphia, they were protesting the Intolerable Acts.
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Congress appointed Washington as the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.
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The Revolutionary War began.
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Written by Thomas Jefferson and was influenced by many men.
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Washington and his army defeat Cornwallis at Princeton, New Jersey.
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B. Franklin invents Bifocals
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Washington and Rochambeau unite to begin the siege of Cornwall at Yorktown.
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John Adams leads a delegation and signs the peace treaty that officially ended the Revolutionary War.
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George Washington was unanimously voted in as the country's first President of the United States of America.
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The Bill of Rights was submitted by Congress
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Was chartered in Philadelphia; proposed by Alexander Hamilton.
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G. Washington signed the statement of Neutrality in the French Revolutionary War.
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Patented by Eli Whitney. It does the job of 50 men cleaning cotton.
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John Adams was elected. He ran against Thomas Jefferson.
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Washington passes away at his house in Virginia
