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The first group of Puritan settelers was led by John Endecott. They began the settement salem massachusetts.
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Lep a group of 1,000 Puritans on 15 ships. He becamee the governor of the puritan colony. He was a lawyer in England.
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is banished from Massachusetts for nonconformist religious views that advocate personal revelation over the role of the clergy. She then travels with her family to Rhode Island.
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Rhode Island enacts the first law in the colonies declaring slavery illegal.
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consolidating the colonies of New England into a single Dominion depriving colonists of their local political rights and independence. Legislatures are dissolved and the King's representatives assume all of the judicial and legislative power.
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is born in Boston. In November, South Carolina establishes the Anglican Church as its official church.
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King George II ascends the English throne.
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is founded in the Maryland colony.
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John Peter Zenger is brought to trial for seditious libel but is acquitted after his lawyer successfully convinces the jury that truth is a defense against libel.
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England declares war on Spain. As a result, in America, hostilities break out between Florida Spaniards and Georgia and South Carolina colonists.
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The Iron Act is passed by the English Parliament, limiting the growth of the iron industry in the American colonies to protect the English Iron industry.
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The Currency Act is passed by the English Parliament, banning the issuing of paper money by the New England colonies.
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a mob in Boston attacks the home of Thomas Hutchinson, Chief Justice of Massachusetts, as Hutchinson and his family narrowly escape.
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the Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York City, with representatives from nine of the colonies.
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signs a bill repealing the Stamp Act after much debate in the English Parliament, which included an appearance by Ben Franklin arguing for repeal and warning of a possible revolution in the American colonies if the Stamp Act was enforced by the British military.
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violence breaks out in New York between British soldiers and armed colonists, including Sons of Liberty members.
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in the territory of California, San Diego is founded by Franciscan Friar Juniper Serra.
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The population of the American colonies reaches 2,210,000 persons.
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ccurs as colonial activists disguise themselves as Mohawk Indians then board the ships and dump all 342 containers of tea into the harbor.
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The Treaty of Paris is signed by the United States and Great Britain.
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The U. S. capital is moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.
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On February 17, on the thirty-sixth ballot, Jefferson is elected president and Aaron Burr becomes vice president.
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James Madison is elected President – tensions continue to build with Britain.
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War of 1812 with Britain (15% sailors Black)
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Napoleon finally, finally defeated at Waterloo.
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Alabama admitted as slave state, bringing the number of slave states and free states to equal numbers.
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New York gives free Blacks the right to vote
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Mexico becomes a republic – outlaws slavery
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Georgia prohibits the Education of Slaves
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Underground Railroad” established
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texas declares independence from Mexico
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Depression begins with "Panic of 1837
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Samuel Morse sends first telegraph message from Washington to Baltimore
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Santa Anna presidency is overthrown in Mexico
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War with Mexico
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Franklin Pierce re-elected President
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Henry Bessemer invents process that allows mass production of steel; adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua; five slavery supporters are killed in a Kansas raid led by John Brown
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Oregon admitted as State
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Lincoln elected President
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Public lands set aside for State Colleges and
Slavery is abolished in the District of Columbia. -
Radical” Congressional Reconstruction
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15th Amendment Ratified, giving Blacks but not women the right to vote.
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KKK members tried and convicted by federal courts in Mississippi. Grant suspends habeas corpus and declared martial law in 9 So. Carolina counties. Many Blacks elected to political office.
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45th Congress has three Black members.
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BORN
- Tuskegee Institute Founded
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President Garfield was shot on July 2; he died on September 19. Vice President Chester A. Arthur (Republican) succeeded Garfield as president.
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Civil Rights Act of 1875 declared unconstitutional
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On June 25, African-American Samuel David Ferguson was ordained a bishop of the Episcopal church.
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admitted as state
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One hundred and thirteen black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1891.
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Grover Cleveland (Democrat) was elected president on November 8.
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The Pullman Company strike caused a national transportation crisis
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African-American leader and statesman Frederick Douglass died on February 20.
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SOUTHERN STATES PASS LAWS TO DISENFRANCISE BLACKS
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WRIGHT BROTHERS FIRST FLIGHT
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Rosevelt asserts U.S. right
to intervene in Latin America -
Russia and
Japan at war -
Albert Einstein proposes
Special Theory of Relativity -
mini-revolution
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World War One begins:
Germany invades Belgium -
D.W. Griffith directs
Birth of a Nation -
Albert Einstein proposes
General Theory of Relativity -
Russian revolutions:
communist U.S.S.R. formed -
Versailles
Peace Treaty
