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Colonial population is about 275,000; Boston is the largest city with 7000 inhabitants.
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Massachusetts passes a law ordering all Roman Catholic priests to leave the colony within three months, if not they would face life in prison or execution.
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The war of Spanish succession begins. In America, colonists fight spanish, french, and indians.
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Benjamin Franklin is born in Boston,
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Conflict between Native Americans and settlers rises in North Carolina after the massacre of settlers there.
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Significant numbers of Irish immigrants come to America to settle, large numbers in Pennsylvania
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New Orleans is founded by the French, it includes a very stategic port for ships.
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Similar to a vaccine, the Smallpox innoculation introduced the virus into the patient's body in a weak dose to build the body's immune system to fight the desiese. Helped with social issues.
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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 by Lord Baltimore.
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The first American public library is founded in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin.
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James Oglethorpe and his partners form a safe haven for debtors in Georgia.
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Benjamin Frankling publishes his book "Poor Richard's Almanac", a compilation of weather predictions, proverbs and epigrams.
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Placed heavy taxes on molasses, rum and sugar imported from non-British islands in the Caribbean to protect the English planters there from French and Dutch competition.
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Jonathan Edwards, Congregationalist clergyman preaches a series of sermons in Northampton Massachusetts that begin the Great Awakening.
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The War of Austrian Succession begins in Europe.
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Leaders from each colony met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in order to form the First Continental Congress. It was designed to discuss colonial grievances.
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Iron Act passed, bans the construction of iron mills and steel furnaces in the American colonies. This was made to protect the Britishes Iron industry
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The Currency Act is passed in America, banning the issuing of paper money by the New England colonies.
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Meeting where Benjamin Franklin proposes a plan to unify British colonies and America, was rejected.
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George Washington was sent to deliver a letter to the French from the English stating that the French were to remove themselves from English lands. Beginning the war.
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William Pitt becomes England's Secretary of State resulting in the French and Indian War causing conflict in the colonies by establishing a policy of unlimited warfare.
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British defeat French and gain the control of Canada.
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American colonies have reached a population of 1.6 million people.
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King George III becomes the king of England
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The Treaty of Paris was signed giving England the right to the territories in North America which included the continent and some of the Caribbean (sugar) islands.
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Native American effort to drive British out of the Great lakes settlement after the British victory in the French and Indian war.
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Colonists were prevented from crossing the Appalachian Mountains to the west, they felt controlled and upset.
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With loss of money due to the French and Indian War, Britain needed money to pay debt, taxing the colonies on sugar and molasses.
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Taxes colonies on printed materials and legal documents. It required a tax stamp on documents. Colonists called it "taxation without representation".
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The Stamp Act was repealed due to colonists resistance. Declaratory Act put into place.
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Placed import taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. Caused resistance from colonies, leading to their desire for independance.
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Five colonists were killed and several wounded by british soldiers in Boston.
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Tea act led to the Tea parties in Boston and other cities.
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British response to Tea party, also enacted british quartering of soldiers on colonist property.
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FIrst Continental Congress calls for the abolition of the slave trade to America.
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The Philadelphia Quakers found the world's first antislavery society.
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Massachusetts minute men defended colonial munitions and forced British regulars to retreat back to Boston.
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The Second Continental Congress made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Continental Congress appoints George Washington Commander in Cheif of the Continental army.
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Thomas Paine's Common Sense was a pamphlet written to persuade loyalists that it was time to sever ties with Britain and to be independent.
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George Washington leads the Continental army to push the British out of Boston.
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Declaration of Independence officially cut ties with Britain.
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The British win the Battle of Long Island.
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Pennsylvania enacts a law that shows a gradual abolition of slavery. Massachusets adopts a bill of rights that applies to black and whites equally.
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Articles of Confederation are put into effect by the US government,
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This ended the revolutionary war, granting America its independance from Britain.
