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Peace treaty between French and Native Americans in New Francy (Canada).
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Benjamin Franklin was an American statesman
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First German settlers arrive in North America.
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War between French and Native North Americans in New France (Canada).
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The French found New Orleans.
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Quakers (a Christian sect founded in c.1650) demanded abolition of slavery.
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North and South Carolina become British colonies.
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First sugar cane refinery is established in New York. The success of sugar cane plantations in the Caribbean, worked by slaves imported from Africa, leads to the expansion of the trade in sugar.
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Georgia, the last of the 13 colonies, is founded.
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Founding of Richmond, Virginia.
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American political pamphleteer and author of "The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason."
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American Revolutionary leader.
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Benjamin Franklin, a publisher and politician from Boston, Massachusetts, shows that lightning is caused by electricity.
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George Washington and John Forbes take Fort Duquesne, later named Pittsburgh.
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James Monroe was the fifth president of the United States
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Amendment of British Sugar Act to tax American colonies.
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William Pinkney was U.S. legislature.
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New British imports taxes imposed on goods to North America to upset the colonists.
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Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States.
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William Henry Harrison was the ninth President of the United States.
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Virginia House of Burgesses decides to call continental Congress; it meets at Philadelphia with representatives of all colonies except Georgia.
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Battles of Lexington and Concord, won by the colonists. British victory at Bunker Hill.
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The American War of Independence
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British troops forced out of Boston. American Declaration of Independence.
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British General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown.
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Treaty of Paris: Britain recognizes the independence of the 13 colonies, renamed the United States of America. Britain gives Florida to Spain.
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A new constitution is drawn up in the United States by Thomas Jefferson.
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George Washington becomes the first President of the United States.
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The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution (Bill of Rights) ratified.