Colonial Society and Revolution

By Blake Wassmann

  • The Enlightenment Era

    The Englightenment Era was a time when reasong was moved away from religion and into more rational ideas

  • Yale College was founded in Conneticut

  • The First Enduring Newspaper in America (The Boston News-Letter)

  • Massachusetts declares mariage between blacks and whites illegal

  • George I takes the throne

  • Tea introduced into American Colinies

  • First blacks are brought to Louisiana territoy

  • New Orleans is founded by the French

  • Black population reaches 75,000

  • Benjamin Franklin begins publishing The Pennsylvania Gazette

  • First Great Awakening

  • Steno Rebellion

    Florida promised freedom to any slaves who could escape and 75 South Corolinians revolted and killed several men

  • Albany Congres

    Albany Congres

  • French and Indian War

    Started when French troops captured a British Expeditionary force

  • Writs of Assistance

  • Treaty of Paris

    This treaty signed in 1763 ended the French and Indian War

  • Pontiacs Rebellion

  • Royal Proclomation of 1763

    This line set the western boundary for the British North Americans to not cross onto the Indian Territory

  • Sugar Act

    The Sugar Act put a tax on sugar being imported

  • Currency Act

    The Currency Act made all Colonial money non-valid and had to use a different form of money that the British accepted

  • Quartering Act

  • Congress repeals the Stamp Act

  • Townshend Acts

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

  • Calm Before the Storm

  • Committees of Corespondence

  • The Tea Act

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Coercive/ Intolerable Acts

  • 1st Continental Congress

  • Lexington and Concord

  • 2nd Continental Congress

  • Thomas Pain's Commen Sense

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Articles of Confederation

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Works Cited

    Works Cited
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    "Medieval Technology and American History - Timelines - Colonial American Timeline." Penn State College of Engineering. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 May 2013. http://www.engr.psu.edu/mtah/timelines/timeline3.htm.