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The House of Burgesses passes the first comprehensive slave code
The House of Burgesses passes their first major slave code to fully suppress the rights of the slaves working on the plantations and taking away any chance they had at freedom. -
William Parks sets up his printing shop in Annapolis
The small printing shop allowed for locals of the Chesapeake area to be able to record and print their own papers and books. -
Johnathan Edwards gave his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
Johnathan Edwards gives his sermon in the winter of 1734 in hopes to reach an audience that had gone numb to the searching of Christ. -
Stono Rebellion
Eighty enslaved laborers banded together to form a rebellion that killed about 20 white settlers as they marched toward the free settlement of Fort Mose. -
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The French and Indian War
Also know as the Seven Year's War, the French and Indian war was a conflict between British Settlers in the colonies vs. the French settlers and their native American allies -
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Pontiac's War
A native America prophet, Neolin, convinced a local tribe Leader Pontiac to attempt to take the British Fort Detroit and drive out the British. However, the Native Americans did not succeed, but they did make the British government take them seriously. -
Parliament passes the Sugar Act
British Parliament imposes the Stamp, Sugar, and Townshend Acts in response to the Colonies smuggling of goods from other countries and in hopes to draw more revenue. -
The Boston Massacre
As tensions in the colonies grew in resistance to Britain's unfair taxation. One major conflicted erupted in Boston's square killing 5 citizens of Boston and demonizing the British. -
The First Constitutional Convention convenes
representatives from all thirteen of the colonies except Georgia come together to discuss the treatment of the American colonies by Britain. -
Fighting in Lexington and Concord
Before the Declaration of Independence had even been drafted the war had begun. The first conflicts began on the roads to Massachusetts towns, Lexington and Concord. -
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American War of Independence
The American colonies fought for and won their independence from the tyrannical British government in a heavily up hill battle. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitutional Convention drafted and sent the Declaration of Independence to the British government declaring they were free from its tyranny. -
Constitution Ratified
The separate American colonies were able to agree on and ratify the constitution.