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An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School in Saybrook is passed by the Colony of Connecticut. It would become Yale University.
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French and Indian's attack Massachusetts killing 56 and abducting over 100.
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The resulted in six suicides and 21 executions.
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Westmoreland County, VA
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Benjamin Franklin published the first of the 26 annual editions in Philadelphia.
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29 years after the first uprising a second one occurs. This results in 17 slaves being hanged, 13 burned, and 70 deported.
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Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod.
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This places a duty on various commodities, including lumber, food, molasses and rum in the British colonies.
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Nine American colonies hold a Stamp Act Congress in New York and adopt the Declaration of Rights against taxation without representation.
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British government places more levies on goods, including glass, painter's lead, paper, and tea.
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British troops fired into a Boston mob, who were demonstrating against British troops at the customs commission. Five men were killed of the forty-fifty patriots. This event was later credited as the first battle in the American Revolution, which truly began five years later. This incident was used to further the colonists cause of rebellion.
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British Prime Minister Lord North and parliament kept the tea tax to show their supremacy.
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Noted for his Lewis and Clark Expedition. Later became the Governor of the Missouri Territory and Superintendent of Indian Affairs.
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Governor Livingston builds Liberty Hall in Union.
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Samuel Adams organizes the Committee of Correspondence. The meeting was held in Boston's Faneuil Hall and then later repeated throughout the American colonies.
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Samuel Adams writes his Rights of the Colonists document.
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The Virginia House of Burgesses reacts strongly to British policies by making a committee to contact the other colonies.
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Benjamin Franklin writes and publishes this satirical essay.
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Josiah Quincy and Samuel Adams board three English East India Company ships and tosses 342 chests of tea overboard in protest of tea trade and British government taxation of the colonies. This act
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(09-05-1774 to 10-26-1774) This meeting was held in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia. All of the colonies except Georgia were represented. They petitioned for the stop of new regulations and called for boycotts against British imports. No concessions were granted by the British King and Parliament.
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Quartering Act: The act declared that the colonists must allow British soldiers into their homes and stopped self-rule. This act caused the addition of the third Amendment of the Constitution to prohibit the U.S. army from doing the same.
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George Washington and George Mason formed this militia with no more than 100 men.
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Patrick Henry addresses the Virginia House of Burgesses in St. John's Church in Richmond. This speech is famous for the line, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!" The crowd reacted with chants of, "To Arms! To Arms!"
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Two lanterns were hung from the Old North Church Steeple
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From the pen of Thomas Jefferson and committee is approved and signed
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The sumbersible ship the Turtle attempts to attach a time bomb to a British ship in the New York Harbor.
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A spy for the Continental Army that was executed by the British.
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Christmas Day from 4:00 PM to 4:00 AM from Pennsylvania to New Jersey. They defeat 1,400 Hessians in the 1st Battle of Trenton and captured 900 men.
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General Washington and the 7,000 men he commanded defeated the British troops.
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Princeton, New Jersey. Back to back wins for General Washington showed the European nations that Americans could and would combat the British army.
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First time flag is flown during battle
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This is the first constitution of the United States.
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General Washington marches 11,000 men into the winter encampment.
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He became a traitor against America because of his anger over this.
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Newport, Rhode Island
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General George Washington and Rochambeau join together to fight the British near Williamsburg. The battle started on 10/09 and ended on 10/16 when the British surrendered.
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The "Treaty of Paris" because it was signed in Paris was the final version of the treaty that Britain signed recognizing the U.S. as independent.
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Preliminary peace treaty is signed.
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France, John Adams leads a delegation that signed the peace treaty ending the Revolutionary War
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Benjamin Franklin invented bi-focals because of his poor vision.
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Five state delegates call for Congress to hold a convention in Philadelphia in order to write the constitution.
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George Washington presides in Philadelphia's Independence Hall.
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Federal Hall in New York City
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The first President, George Washington, is inaugurated in New York City. John Adams elected Vice President.
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Created the Supreme Court
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Given by George Washington
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Improved method for making potash by Samuel Hopkins.
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Invented the Morse Code
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John Fitch
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Twelve submitted but only ten were approved and put into effect.
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Later called the White House started in the new District of Columbia.
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John Adams reelected as Vice President
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Eli Whitney
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Commissions six vessels to be built
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