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Roman Catholic
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In July, The French establish a settlement at Detroit. In October, Yale College is founded in Connecticut.
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Population of American Colonists
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Caroline Divides Into Both South & North
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Tea is introduced for the first time into the American Colonies
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The first group of black slaves is brought to the Louisiana territory.
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New Orleans is founded by the French.
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The population of black slaves in the American colonies reaches 75,000.
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Benjamin Franklin begins publishing The Pennsylvania Gazette, which eventually becomes the most popular colonial newspaper.
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Baltimore is founded in the Maryland colony.
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The first American public library is founded in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin.
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- February 22, George Washington is born in Virginia. Also in February, the first mass is celebrated in the only Catholic church in colonial America, in Philadelphia. In June, Georgia, the 13th English colony, is founded.
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- February 22, George Washington is born in Virginia. Also in February, the first mass is celebrated in the only Catholic church in colonial America, in Philadelphia. In June, Georgia, the 13th English colony, is founded.
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Benjamin Franklin publishes Poor Richard's Almanac, containing weather predictions, humor, proverbs and epigrams, selling nearly 10,000 copies per year.
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Fifty black slaves are hanged in Charleston, South Carolina, after plans for another revolt are revealed
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June. The U. S. capital is moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.
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James Madison is elected President
James Madison is elected President – tensions continue to build with Britain. As Jefferson's successor, Madison won the 1808 presidential election handily, despite a challenge from his estranged friend, James Monroe. Throughout his first term Madison was preoccupied by disputes with France, Great Britain, and Spain. By 1810 France had repealed its commercial restrictions, at least nominally, and in the same year Madison seized the province of West Florida from Spain, thereby consolidating Ameri -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise, admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Maine immediately gives right to vote and education to all male citizens. The compromise also prohibited slavery in the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase north of 36°30'N lat. (southern boundary of Missouri). The 36°30' proviso held until 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise. -
New York gives free Blacks the right to vote
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Mexico becomes a republic – outlaws slavery
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Mexico becomes a republic – outlaws slavery
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Erie Canal completed
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the decleration
Jefferson dies shortly after 12 noon, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. He is eighty-three years old. Several hours later John Adams, aged 90, dies in Massachusetts, and the nation is struck by this remarkable coincidence. The last letter Jefferson wrote to Adams was on March 23 requesting that Adams see his grandson, which Adams did. Just before he died, Jefferson wrote in the declaration of independence -
Slavery illegal in New York
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Georgia prohibits the Education of Slaves
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Samuel Morse sends first telegraph message from Washington to Baltimore
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War with Mexico
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jim crow law
Jim Crow” laws enacted in Tennessee- Federal troops sent to Vicksburg to protect Blacks
- Civil Rights Act passed
- 44th Congress has eight Black members
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43rd Congress has seven Black members
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45th Congress has three Black members.
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46th Congress has one Black member
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Civil Rights Act of 1875 declared unconstitutional
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SOUTHERN STATES PASS LAWS TO DISENFRANCISE BLACKS
