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Comprehensive Slave Codes
House of Burgesses using laws to protect the interest of slave owners. -
"Early Peity"
A collection of sermons -
Steam Engine
Patented Thomas Newcomen -
Yamasee War
Between British colinists and Native Americans. -
William Parks
First printing shop in Annapolis. Started Chesapeakes stable local trade in printing and books. -
The Walking Purchase of 1737
A mix of a colonists desire for cheap land and the ever changing relationship between Pennsylvanians and their Native Neighbors. -
Stono Rebellion
Slave uprising against white people, attempted escape towards Spanish Flordia. -
Rev. George Whitefield
Started travelling the colonies as a preacher of Calvinist views. -
Killing a rebellious enslaved person was legalized
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Currency Acts of 1751
Restricted the use of paper money. -
Lightning Rod
Benjamin Franklin -
Start of the Seven Years' War
Also known as French and Indian War.
France and Great Britain fueding over their respective American colonies. -
Seven Year's War started in Europe
Fredrick II or Prussia invaded Saxony. -
Fort William Henry
French attacked and burned this British outpost. -
Quakers and Slavery
Quakers disowned members who engaged in slave trade. -
Fort Carillon(Ticonderoga)
French thwarted General Abercrombie's attack on this outpost. -
French and Indian war ended in America
British capture of Montreal. -
British Captured Quebec
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End of Seven Years' War
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Currency Acts of 1763
Again restricted use of paper money. -
Treaty of Paris
Officially ended the American Revolution. -
Treaty of Hubertusburg
Offically ended the Seven Years' War and Third Silesian War. -
Pontiac's War
Attemted take over of Fort Detroit resulting in a six-month seige of the British fort. -
Royal Proclamation of 1763
Marked boundaries between British colonies and Native American held land. -
Sugar Act
Levied taxes on sugar for colonists. -
Spinning Jenny
James Hargreaves -
Stamp Act Congress of 1765
Brought colonials together against taxes imposed by Parliment. -
Stamp Act of 1765
Imposed a tax on printed materials. -
Virgina Resolves
Passed by the House of Burgesses, these are of the most famous anti-Stamp Act resolutions. -
End of Pontiac's War
Pontiac and William Johnson settled for peace at Fort Ontario. -
Stamp Act Repealed
Due to violence, boycotts, and violence, Great Britain repealed the Stamp Act. -
Townsend Acts
Named after Charles Townsend, these were a series of duties or 4 different taxes on china, glass, tea, lead, paint, and paper. -
Townsend Acts Repealed
All except the duty on tea. -
Boston Massacre
Started with colonists gathering around the Custom House and ended with five dead Bostonians. -
Regulation Act
Parliment put the East India Company under government control. -
The Tea Act
Tea taxes had to be paid when tea was unloaded from ship. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists and the "Sons of Liberties" threw a large amount of tea into the harbor. -
The First Continential Congress
First convened and started the "Declaration of Rights and Grievances." -
American Revolution
America fought for freedom form England. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Attempts to dislodge colonists from Breed's Hill. They eventually took the hill, but only after suffering several casualties. -
Dunmore’s Proclamation of 1775
In Virginia, allowed enslaved people to escape and join the British Army. -
Lexington and Concord
The British had seized Lexington and Concord. -
Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition.
Dismissed colonists petitions. The King believed colonists were being misled. -
Congress Voted on Resolution
Precurser to Declaration of Independence calling states to withdraw from royal officials. -
Declaration of Independence
Congress approved the document, but the Americans still had to win the war. -
Battle of Saratoga
Continential Army defeated Burgoyene after he was deserted by General Howe. Turning point in war for colonists. -
Treaty of Amity and Commerce
Turned America's rebellion into a global war. -
"grand federal procession"
Philadelphian's procession in honor of the new constitution. -
Constitutional Convention in Cambridge
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Bi-focal Glasses
Benjamin Franklin -
Ratified the Articles of Confederation
by the Continential Congress. -
Enslaved Freedom
Thousands of enslaved people escaped with the retreating British Army. -
Hot Air Ballon
Invented by Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier -
American Revolution
Offically came to an end. -
Power Loom
Invented by Edmund Cartwright. -
Start of Northwestern Indian Wars
Between the U.S. and the Western Confederacy for control of the Northwest Teriitory. -
Steamboat
Invented by John Fitch -
Start of Shay's Rebellion
Ended in 1787, uprising of farmers in debt. -
Benjamin Lincoln
Reopened the courts by arresting more than 1000 Shaysites involved in Shay's Rebellion. -
"dirty compromise"
Between New England and the Deep South that allowed slavery as long as the Deep South agrred to New Englands terms. -
Constitutional Convention of 1787
No official government religion. -
Ratified Constitution
All though debates were not over, Congress announced that most states had put this new constitution into effect. -
U.S. Constitution
The supreme law of the United States, written as a basis for American government. -
George Washington
Started his first term as President. -
Ten Amendments
Were added to the U.S. Consitution. -
Bank of the United States
Congress approved 21 year charter. -
Start of Whiskey Rebellion
Protest against taxes in the U.S. that ended in violence. -
David Bradford
He led around 7000 men to rob from the U.S. Mail and then gathered outside of Pittsburg. -
Jay's Treaty
Signed a "treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation” with the British requiring them to abandon their military outposts in the Northwest. -
Cotton Gin
Patented by Eli Whitney -
End of Whiskey Rebellion
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Washington Shut Down the Whiskey Rebellion
Being the only sitting President to led troops in the field, he shut down the Rebel farmers and then handed it over to Henry Lee. -
Washington's Farewell Address
Speech at the end of his presidency. -
Small Pox Vaccine
Invented by Edward Jenner -
John Adams
Started term as Second U.S. President. -
The Alien Act
"Allowed the federal government to deport foreign nationals, or “aliens,” who seemed to pose a national security threat." -
Sedition Act
Prosocute those speaking against the government. -
Quasi-War
Ended in 1800
Undeclared Naval war between France and the U.S. most of which took place in the Atlantic. -
Fries's Rebellion
Ended in 1800
A tax revolt among the Pennsylvania Dutch farmers.
The third tax revolt after Shay's and Whiskey Rebellions.
