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1st colonial newspaper
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Georgia - founded by Edward James
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Great Awakening
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Benjamin Franklin invents the Franklin stove and in 1747 invents the lightning rod. Franklin also invents the odometer and bifocal glasses
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French and Indian war
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Proclamation line of 1763
Honor promises made to Delaware and Iroquois -
Sugar Act of 1764
replaced Molasses Act of 1733 -
Currency Act 1764
threatened to destabilize the entire colonial economy -
Stamp Act 1765
first direct tax on American colonies, must bear a stamp -
Quartering Act 1765
each colonial assembly was directed to provide for the basic needs of soldiers stationed within borders -
Stamp Act Congress 1765
delegates from 9 colonies
Petition to the king
Parliament alarmed at violence of colonial protesters -
James Watt invents the first modern steam engine
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Declaratory Act 1766
Parliament has/had Supreme Court over colonies
No Stamp Act
Parliament do what they want -
Townshend duties
taxes paper, paint, lead, glass, tea -
Revenue Act
created board of customs and Commissioners -
Restraining Act 1767
Virginia resolves: resolutions written by George Mason -
Boss Massacre
Cold winter day
British patrolling streets
shots fired, 5 Bostonian and 2 boys laid dead -
Boston Tea Party / Tea Act 1773
Proposed to give monopoly to east India company on direct sales to the colonies -
Quebec Act 1774
Greatly upset American colonists -
First Constitutional Congress
56 delegates, structured with emphasis on equality of participants and to promote free debate -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
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Period: to
American Revolutionary War
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Declaration of Independence
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Battle of Long Island
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British defeated at Saratoga
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Battle of Saratoga
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Period: to
Cherokee American Wars
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French join the war against the British
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Battle of Monmouth
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Battle of Baton Rouge
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Battle of King's Mountain
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Battle of Yorktown, and Articles of Confederation ratified
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Battle of Guilford Court House
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Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier fly the first Hot Air Balloon
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Northwest Ordinance of 1784, 1785, and 1787
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Annapolis Convention
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Shays' Rebellion, and Constitutional Convention
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George Washington
1st U.S. president
1789 - 1797 -
Capital placed on the Potomac River
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U.S. Supreme Court meets for the first time in NYC
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Bill of Rights
First ten amendments to the constitution -
Eli Whitney invents the Cotton Gin
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Whiskey Rebellion, and Indians defeated at Fallen Timbers
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Jay Treaty, Pinckney Treaty
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Thomas Jefferson invented the Wheel cypher, a cipher system for encrypting messages to prevent code breaking
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John Adams
2nd U.S. president
1797 - 1801 -
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
