1700-1800

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  • 1st colonial newspaper

  • Georgia - founded by Edward James

    Georgia - founded by Edward James

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    Great Awakening

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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    American Revolutionary War

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Long Island

  • British defeated at Saratoga

  • Battle of Saratoga

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    Cherokee American Wars

  • French join the war against the British

  • Battle of Monmouth

  • Battle of Baton Rouge

  • Battle of King's Mountain

  • Battle of Yorktown, and Articles of Confederation ratified

  • Battle of Guilford Court House

  • Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier fly the first Hot Air Balloon

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    Northwest Ordinance of 1784, 1785, and 1787

  • Annapolis Convention

  • Shays' Rebellion, and Constitutional Convention

  • George Washington

    George Washington

    1st U.S. president
    1789 - 1797

  • Capital placed on the Potomac River

  • U.S. Supreme Court meets for the first time in NYC

  • Bill of Rights

    First ten amendments to the constitution

  • Eli Whitney invents the Cotton Gin

  • Whiskey Rebellion, and Indians defeated at Fallen Timbers

  • Jay Treaty, Pinckney Treaty

  • Thomas Jefferson invented the Wheel cypher, a cipher system for encrypting messages to prevent code breaking

  • John Adams

    John Adams

    2nd U.S. president
    1797 - 1801

  • Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions