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sugar exports from the tiny island of Barbados valued more than the total exports of all the continental colonies
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Arrived in Charles Town
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A group of New England ministers published a collection of sermons.
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In New York City, resulted in 9 white colonists death, but 21 slaves were executes and 6 committed suicide before burned alive.
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Yamasee, Carolina’s closest allies and most lucrative trading partners, turned against the colony and nearly destroyed it entirely. Writing from Carolina to London, the settler George Rodd believed the Yamasee wanted nothing less than “the whole continent and to kill us or chase us all out.”26 The Yamasee would eventually advance within miles of Charles Town.
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Judge Samuel Sewell noted in his diary that a new Anglican minister “keeps the day in his new Church at Braintrey: people flock thither.”
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Preacher that traveled around to give others salvation
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of the great awakening
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The Walking Purchase of 1737 was emblematic of both colonists’ desire for cheap land and the changing relationship between Pennsylvanians and their Native neighbors.
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the Rev. George Whitefield, an enigmatic, itinerant preacher, traveled the colonies preaching Calvinist sermons to huge crowds.
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a new law stated that killing a rebellious slave was not a crime and even the murder of a slave was treated as a minor misdemeanor.
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The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening—began to combine in the colonies and challenge older ideas about authority. Perhaps no single philosopher had a greater impact on colonial thinking than John Locke.
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Authorities uncovered another planned rebellion by African slaves, free blacks, and poor whites.
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Persuaded his congregation that he had a special knowledge from God. Told them that they had to dance naked in circles at night while screaming and laughing.
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Approximately one hundred thousand African slaves in Virginia, at least 40 percent of the colony’s total population.
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Slavery was legal throughout the region. South Carolina had been a slave colony from its founding and, by 1750, was the only mainland colony with a majority enslaved African population.
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caused the Board of Trade to restrict the uses of paper money in the Currency Acts of 1751 and 1763.
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Led by George Washington, killed a french diplomat.
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Benjamin Franklin suggested a plan of union to coordinate defenses across the continent.
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Slavery was legal in every North American colony, but local economic imperatives, demographic trends, and cultural practices all contributed to distinct colonial variants of slavery.
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British defeat at the battle of Minden in Europe and destroyed large portions of the fleet.
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British general James Wolfe defeated French general Louis-Joseph de Montcalm in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, outside Quebec City.
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Religious Revivals petered out. Left a profound impact on America.
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Benjamin Rush, a native of Philadelphia, recounted a visit to Parliament. Upon seeing the king’s throne in the House of Lords, Rush said he “felt as if he walked on sacred ground” with “emotions that I cannot describe.”
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Ten amendments were added.
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Paper money tended to lose value quicker than coins and was often counterfeited
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Ended with the peace treaties of Paris and Hubertusberg.
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Britain’s first major postwar imperial action targeting North America.
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The term Anti-Federalist would be essentially meaningless.
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Washington officially declared that the United States would remain neutral
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Parliament passed two more reforms
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Was an attempt to get merchants to pay an already existing duty, but the Stamp Act created a new, direct (or “internal”) tax. Parliament had never before directly taxed the colonists.
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Brought colonial leaders together in an unprecedented show of cooperation against taxes imposed by Parliament, and popular boycotts of British goods created a common narrative of sacrifice, resistance, and shared political identity. A rebellion loomed.
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The act required that many documents be printed on paper that had been stamped to show the duty had been paid, including newspapers, pamphlets, diplomas, legal documents, and even playing cards.
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In 1765, Daniel Dulany of Maryland wrote, “A right to impose an internal tax on the colonies, without their consent for the single purpose of revenue, is denied, a right to regulate their trade without their consent is, admitted.”7
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These responses eventually led to the calling of the Stamp Act Congress in New York City in October 1765.
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The most famous of the anti-Stamp Act resolutions were the Virginia Resolves, passed by the House of Burgesses on May 30, 1765, which declared that the colonists were entitled to “all the liberties, privileges, franchises, and immunities . . . possessed by the people of Great Britain.”
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Ended in 1766
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Andrew Jackson
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Andrew Jackson
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In March 1770, Parliament repealed all of the new duties except the one on tea, which, like the Declaratory Act, was left, in part, to save face and assert that Parliament still retained the right to tax the colonies.
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Massacre
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First continental congress convenes
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The First Continental Congress convened on September 5, 1774.
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Boston, Newport, Newport, Philadelphia, and Charleston
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Few years after the Revolution ended, thousands of farmers in western Massachusetts were struggling under a heavy burden of debt.
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Lincoln’s militia arrested more than one thousand Shaysites and reopened the courts.
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James Madison and other nationalists, delegates from twelve of the thirteen states met at the Pennsylvania state house in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787.
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New England and the Deep South agreed to what was called a “dirty compromise” at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
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At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Alexander Hamilton warned of the “vices of democracy” and said he considered the British government—with its powerful king and parliament—“the best in the world.”
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Federalists like James Madison, Edmund Randolph, and John Marshall squared off against equally influential Anti-Federalists like Patrick Henry and George Mason.
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Congress announced that a majority of states had ratified the Constitution and that the document was now in effect.
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Philadelphians turned out for a “grand federal procession” in honor of the new national constitution.
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news had arrived in America that the French had revolted against their king.
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the state of Virginia had wielded more influence on the federal government than any other state
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Merchants in New England began experimenting with machines to replace the putting-out system.
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Congress approved a twenty-year charter for the Bank of the United States.
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Hamilton proposed a federal excise tax on the production, sale, and consumption of a number of goods, including whiskey.
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Sixteen men in western Pennsylvania, disguised in women’s clothes, assaulted a tax collector named Robert Johnson.
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Failed, inspired free and enslaved black Americans, and terrified white Americans.
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French ambassador, “Citizen” Edmond-Charles Genêt, arrived in the United States.
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French Revolution in 1793
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groups of armed farmers attacked federal marshals and tax collectors, burning down at least two tax collectors’ homes.
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John Jay signed a “treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation” with the British.
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Washington became the only sitting president to lead troops in the field, though he quickly turned over the army to the command of Henry Lee, a Revolutionary hero and the current governor of Virginia
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United States elects a new president. Therefore Washington steps down.
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The Alien Act allowed the federal government to deport foreign nationals, or “aliens,” who seemed to pose a national security threat.
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Allowed the government to prosecute anyone found to be speaking or publishing “false, scandalous, and malicious writing” against the government.
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George Washington dies
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Many Americans called for war when the British attacked the USS Chesapeake in 1807.
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American ports were closed to all foreign trade in hopes of avoiding war.
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Tecumseh's confederation floundered