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The first public newspaper called the News-Letter was established in Boston by John Campbell.
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Mission San Antonio de Valero (The Alamo) built as the first Spanish mission along the San Antonio River.
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The French establish Fort Orleans along the Missouri River near Brunswick, Missouri.
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George Whitefield begins his travels throughout the colonies. His message of everyday Christians having a personal connection with God resonates and begins the First Great Awakening.
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The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War.
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The Plantation Act, also knows as the Sugar Act, is passed to encourage immigration to the colonies and regularize colonial naturalization procedures.
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The Revolutionary War was an insurrection by American Patriots in the 13 colonies to British rule, resulting in American independence.
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The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America and Canada, officially ended the American Revolutionary War.