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A group of New England ministers published a collection of sermons titled Early Piety. Increase Mather was honored to write the preface. In the preface he asked the question, “What did our forefathers come into this wilderness for?” His answer was simple: to test their faith against the challenges of America and win.
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Ben Franklin, who was a scholar and businessman, came in to Philadelphia's printing world.
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William Parks set up a printing shop in Annapolis. Up until that time the Chesapeake Indians did not have a stable local trade for printing and books.
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The first revivals of the Great Awakening started in the Congregational churches of New England then spread through the Presbyterians, Baptists, and Methodists in the rest of the thirteen colonies.
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The Stono Rebellion was when a group of about 80 slaves in Florida, burned plantations and killed 20+ white settlers before heading to Fort Mose. Fort Mose is a free black settlement on the Georgia-Florida border.
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France and Britain feuded over the boundaries of their respective North American empires. The feud turned bloody in 1754 when a force of British colonists and Native American allies, led by young George Washington, killed a French diplomat. This incident led to the war
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This war started when a French Diplomat was killed by the British and their allies. The war ended with the peace treaties of Paris and Hubertusburg in 1763.
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Ben Franklin proposes a method of union to coordinate defenses at the Albany Congress.
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The Quakers in Pennsylvania disowned all members engaged in the slave trade and by 1772 slave-owning Quakers could be expelled from the meetings.
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The Currency Act Limited the colonies from printing paper money.
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In 1761 a prophet by the name of Neolin have a vision from his religion deity, the Master of Life. Preaching to the Ottawa and their leader Pontiac, what was told to him in the vision. The Indians were told to avoid alcohol and to return to the traditional Indian rituals. Pontiac took action and that started Pontiac's War. The war ended when Pontiac meet with the British and settled for peace.
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The Royal Proclamation of 1763 states that the Appalachian Mountains is the boundary between British colonies and Indian country.
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Parliament levied taxes on sugar, paper, lead, glass, and tea.
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The Stamp Act Congress of 1765 brought colonial leaders together in an show of cooperation against taxes imposed by Parliament, and boycotts of British goods created a sacrifice, resistance, and shared political identity.
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Passed by the House of Burgesses, the most will known of the anti-stamp act was the Virginia Resolves.
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By 1766 the Sons of Liberty had been organize in most of the colonies.
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The British colonies in North America declared their independence from the British.
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"The articles allowed each state one vote in the Continental Congress. But the articles are perhaps most notable for what they did not allow. Congress was given no power to levy or collect taxes, regulate foreign or interstate commerce, or establish a federal judiciary." http://www.americanyawp.com/text/05-the-american-revolution/
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A firm out of Liverpool called Peel, Yates & Co. received the first seven bales of American cotton.
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The Bank of the United States was giving a twenty-year charter by Congress.
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin which is a machine to de-seed cotton.
