1700-1800

  • Spanish begin to settle modern day United States

    José Romo establishes settlement in Modern day Arizona
  • New York Slave Revolt

    Uprising in New York with 23 slaves staging a revolt.
  • Baltimore is established

    The city of Baltimore in Maryland is established.
  • Plantation Act is established

    Plantation Act is established to encourage immigration into agricultural communities.
  • Quebec was absorbed into England

    The English overtook Quebec in the French and Indian war
  • Boston Massacre

    British troops fire into a mob killing five people before the revolutionary war.
  • Period: to

    American Revolution

    The war that led to America gaining its independence from England.
  • Cotton Gin Invention

    Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin to eliminate slave labor