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The Quakers were the first religious group that opposed slavery. In the year of 1722 slave-owning Quakers expelled from their meetings, and in the year of 1758 many Quakers in Pennsylvania disowned church member that participated in the slave trade.
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George Whitefield was on of the famous preachers during the 1730's. He encouraged everyone to be born again and that God was pleased with actions that are heartfelt.
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This is when Native Delaware agreed to sell whatever a man could walk in a day and a half in the land of Pennsylvania. However, skillful runners traveled more than 1,200 miles, so Delaware relation suffered.
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On a Sunday morning, around eighty slaves set out to Florida in seek for freedom. Unfortunately, the local militia captured, sold, or executed many of the slaves.
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The Enlightenment, Great Awakening, and John Locks ideas introduced new ways of thinking to colonial people in the Americas. People began to notice the importance of education, since education would encourage people to think for themselves and question tradition.
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Since Philadelphia was active in the slave trade, slaves were around 8% of the population. In Virginia, 40% of the population were African slaves.
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Svlavery was legal in Noth colonies by the year of 1750
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Paper money would loose value over time and it was often faked. Therefore, this act was made by the Board of Trade in the year of 1751 to limit and restrict the uses of paper money.
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The conflict started when George Washington led Native American allies and British colonists to kill a Frech diplomat. Another name for the Seven Years War is French and Indian War. This war was between a massive coalition of France, Sweden, Russia, and Austria against Prussia, Britain, and a few German states. The war ended in the year of 1763 with the treaties of Paris and Hubertusburg.
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Britain forbade American colonists to settle in the Appalachian Mountains with the goal of avoiding costly wars with the Native Americans.
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Pontiac's War started in the year of 1761 when a a prophet named Neolin claimed that "The Master of Life" had told him in a vision to remove all the British from Indian territories in order to enter heaven. Pontiac, and Ottawa leader, carefuly listened to his preaching and began the Pontiac's War. This war caused the deaths of around four hundred soldiers.
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The Sugar Act of 1764 existed to enrich Great Britain. Americans would later turn back to consume domestic products when the Parliament also issued taxes on tea, lead, paper, and glass.
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This act demanaded that all printed documents (such as playing cards, diplomas, newspapers, etc.) should be stamped. Popular resistance to the Stamp Act took in the form of protests and riots. Colonists also decided to resist economicaly, as they did not import any goods from Great Britain.
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This Act emphasized on the authority the Parliament had over the people of America. In the act, the Parliament declared that it had the full authority and power to imopose laws.
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Philadelphia overtook Boston as the center of colonial printing in the 1770's.
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The Tea Act of 1773 was created to bail out the East India Company.
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This is the declaration in which colonists claimed that they had the rights of native Britons,had the right to be taxes only by their representatives, and the right of a trial with a jury.
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Through Dunmore's Proclamation, the British promised freedom to slaves if they managed to escape their masters and joined the British cause.
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British soldiers attempted to seize militia's arms in Lexington and Concord. Minutemen chased back the British soldiers back to Boston. Colonists build fortifications on Breed's Hill,
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The war of Indepence started at Lexington and Concord even before Congress declared Independence.
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Philadelphia, Charleston, Boston, New York, and Charleston were the largest cities in 1775.
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In the December of 1776, Washington needed a victory to lift moral of his soldiers. Therefore, in the the Christmass Day, Washington and his soldiers crossed the Delaware River and attacked the Hessian camp at Trenton. This victory lifted moral of Washington's troop and the Continental Army won a lot of needed supplies.
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The Congress approved the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
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While colonists were fighting for Indepence, harsh weather and inadequate resources took the lives of many colonists. An example of this took place between 1777-1778 winter at Valley Forge killed around 2,500 Americans.
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The Treaty of Amity and Commerce generated fight in Europe and India between the British and the French.
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The war of Independence officialy ended on September 3, 1783 after peace the British army did not have any strageties left to fight the war and lost public support. Peace negotiations took place in France.
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Shay's Rebellion started when farmers from Massachusetts wanted the government's protection from their creditors.
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In they year of 1787, New Englanders agreed that the Constitution would protect slave trade for twenty years. Atlantic Slave trade resumed and later outlawed in the year of 1808.
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In the year of 1787 twelve of the thirteen states sent representatives to revise the Articles of Confederation. The convention needed the solve the federal government's inability to collect taxes, since many of the burden of paying back debt from the Revolutionary War fell on the states.
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She was a female contributor to the public ratification of over the Constitiution.
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In the year of 1788, the majority of the states had ratified the Constitution, so Congress anounced that the document will be in effect that year.
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He was the 1rst President of the United States.
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In 1791 the Congress approved the Bank of America for twenty years.
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In the year of 1792, white spots appeared in the skin of an African slave in Virginia. This even promoted the beleif that African slaves could be "whitened" and "cured." The spread of the false idea that the black color of their skin was due to leprosy was spread due to this event.
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in the year of 1793. This invention removed sticky green seeds from the cotton. This allowed southern planters to expand coton production.
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He was the 2nd President of the United States.