Technology Project #3 1700-1800

By ccastle1171

  • 250,000 settlers in English colonies

  • First colonial newspaper

  • Georgia chartered-last of the original colonies

  • Period: to

    Zenger trial in New York

  • Proclamation Line established, Peace of Paris ended French and Indian War

  • Stono slave rebellion in South Carolina

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    Great Awakening (began in Massachusetts in 1734)

  • Albany Plan of Union rejected

  • Period: to

    French and Indian War (Seven Years' War)

  • Reign of George III began

  • Period: to

    Pontiac's Rebellion

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    Sugar Act and Stamp Act Controversies

  • Stamp Act repealed and Declaratory Act

  • Daniel Boone breached the Cumberland Gap

  • Townshend duties and New York Assembly suspended, boycotts began

  • James Watt patented the steam engine

  • Boston Massacre

  • Committe of Correspondence formed in Boston, Gaspee incident

  • Sons of Liberty and the Boston Tea Party

  • Coercive Acts, First Continental Congress convened

  • American Revolution began

    Fighting at Lexington and Concord

  • Second Continental Congress-appiontment of George Washington

  • Common Sense published

  • Declaration of Independance signed

  • First state constitution written

  • British defeated at Saratoga

  • Articles of Confederation adopted

  • Franco-American Alliance established

  • Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown

  • Period: to

    States ceded western lands to Conferation

  • Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War

  • Slavery abolished in Massachusetts

  • Judith Sargent Murray published an essay on women's rights

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    Northwest Ordinances of 1784, 1785, and 1787

  • New York first capital of Confederation Congress

  • Annapolis Convention

  • Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom passed

  • Shays's Rebellion

  • Constitution Convention

  • Federalist Papers published

  • Constitution adopted

  • George Washington elected POTUS

  • French Revolution began

  • Judiciary Act of 1789

  • Tariff of 1789

  • Capital placed on Potomac River

  • Samuel Slater built first modern factory in America

  • First BUS chartered

  • First Toll road constructed from Philidelphia to Lancaster

  • Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin

  • Citizen Genet affair challenged US neutrality

  • Whiskey Rebellion quelled in PA

  • Indians defeated at Fallen Timbers

  • Jay's Treaty signed

  • Pinckney Treaty signed

  • Washington's Farewell address

  • John Adam's elected POTUS

  • XYZ Affair and quasi war with France

  • Alien and Sedation Acts

  • Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions passed

  • Capital moved to Washington DC

  • Revolution of 1800