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New England colonial population increases from 100,000 to 400,000; Middle Atlantic colonial population increases from 50,000 to 250,000; 250,000 immigrants and Africans arrive in the colonies
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British and Anglo-American ships transport 3 million African slaves to the Americas
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Population of British North America grows from 250,000 to 2.5 million
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East and West Jersey unite into colony of New Jersey
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Delaware separates from Pennsylvania
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Virginia passes "Negro Act" consolidating and tightening earlier slave laws
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North Carolina becomes fully independent of South Carolina
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Tuscaroras lead pan-Indian war against settlers in the Carolinas
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Benjamin Wadsworth publishes The Well-Ordered Family
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Large numbers of Scots-Irish arrive in Pennsylvania
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Benjamin Franklin becomes Pennsylvania's official printer
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Colony of Georgia established
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John Peter Zenger acquitted of libel in New York City
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First permanent almshouse built in New York City
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Delaware Indians acquiesce to Walking Purchase
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Stono rebellion; Eliza Lucas takes charge of her father's South Carolina estates
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George Whitefield launches 15-month preaching tour of the colonies
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Gilbert Tennent expelled from the Presbyterian Church
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Sarah Grosvenor dies as a result of a botched abortion
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William Moraley publishes an account of his time in America
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40,000 Scottish Catholics shipped to the Carolinas after a failed rebellion
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Impressment leads to 3 days of rioting in Boston
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Spanish settlers in Texas make peace with the Apaches
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American colonists resist appointment of an Anglican bishop for the North American colonies
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George Washington launches surprise attack on Fort Duquesne
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Albany Congress convenes
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George Tennent initiates effort to reunite the Presbyterian Church
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William Pitt takes charge of British war effort
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Paxton Boys attack Conestoga Indians
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Pontiac launches pan-Indian revolt to drive out British
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British establish Proclamation Line of 1763
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Green Mountain Boys resist NY authorities; Sugar Act passed
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Stamp Act passed, Stamp Act Congress convenes
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Sandy Creek Association formed; Stamp Act repealed; and Declaratory Act passed
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Townshend Act passed
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Battle of Alamance Creek, North Carolina
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Coercive Acts passed; Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia
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Continental Congress established; Continental Army
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Representatives of the Continental Congress meet with representatives of the 6 nations of the Iroquois Confederacy
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Dunmore issues his proclamation
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New Jersey constitution enfranchises all free inhabitants, including women and free blacks, who meet property qualifications
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Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense
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British forces defeat Continental Army and force retreat
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Patriot victories at Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey
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Continental Congress publicly declares independence
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Patriot victory at Saratoga
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Continental Army encamps at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
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Articles of Confederation ratified by 8 states
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France enters into formal alliance with the U.S.
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Patriot forces wipe out Iroquois Confederacy villages on New York frontier
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Quock Walker and Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman successfully sue for their freedom in Massachusetts
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Northern states pass gradual emancipation laws
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British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia
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Deborah Sampson enlists in Continental Army under the name of Robert Shurtliff
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Officers encamped at Newburgh, New York, threaten to mutiny
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U.S. commissioners meet with Iroquois delegates at Fort Stanwix, New York
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Northwest Land Ordinance passed Annapolis Convention
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Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia; Northwest Land Ordinance revised
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Alexander Hamilton named secretary of the treasury; Judiciary Act of 1789 passed
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Massachusetts institutes free public elementary education for all children
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Spinning mill designed and built by Samuel Slater opens
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Little Turtle leads pan-Indian alliance against American settlements in the Ohio valley
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Cotton production in the South increases from 3,000 to 330,000 bales annually; U.S. slave population more than doubles from 700,000 to 1.5 million
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Free and enslaved blacks revolt against French rule in Saint Domingue
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New capital of Washington City constructed
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Eli Whitney invents cotton gin
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Yellow fever epidemic paralyzes Philadelphia
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Whiskey Rebellion; Bethel African-American Methodist Church in Philadelphia founded
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Jay Treaty and Pinckney Treaty ratified; Democratic-Republicans and Federalists contest presidential election
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