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This granted the Calvinist Protestants of France rights in a nation still considered essentially Catholic..
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In 1608, Champlain returned to Canada to establish a fur trading post. He chose a site along the St. Lawrence River and named it Quebec.
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He became king at the age of four on the death of his father, Louis XIII.
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The Navigation Acts were passed by the English Parliament and excluded the Dutch from the profits made by the English trade.
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He explored the Great Lakes region of the US, Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico. La Salle claimed the entire Mississippi River basin for France.
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It was the first of six colonial wars fought between New France and New England.
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English governmental advisory body established by William III to replace the Lords of Trade .
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Yale was founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the 3rd oldest institution in USA.
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This was the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought between France and England.
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New Orleans was founded in 1718 by the French as Nouvelle-Orléans.
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The most successful way of treating smallpox before the discovery of vaccination was inoculation. Inoculation is a form of the disease in order to prevent infection by the disease, like the flu shot.
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This Almanack contained the calendar, weather, poems, sayings, astronomical, astrological, and mathematical information.
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Edwards preached on justification by faith which began his preaching to crowds in different colonies and many people joined him.
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Zenger was arrested and charged with libel, but was found not guilty with the help of his lawyer, Andrew Hamilton.
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This was a war between Great Britain and Spain that lasted from 1739 to 1748.
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This was a religious revival of Puritan faith, George Whitfield was a preacher who caused many to convert during ths time.
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This was the third and inconclusive war between France and Great Britain for mastery of North America.
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Princeton was founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey.
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Theis eight-hour battle was fought during heavy rain, which results in a French victory and George Washington's only formal surrender.
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This war involved Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines.
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This was a failed British military expedition which attempted to capture the French Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War.
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Pitt emerged as the leader of a new Tory Party.
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This was a successful capture of the city by the British in the Seven Years' War.
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In 1763 a peace settlement was reached at the Treaty of Hubertusburg ending the war in Europe.
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This treaty was signed by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Britain's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War.
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About 250 Paxton Boys marched to Philadelphia to present their complaints to the legislature.
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This was aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses between the French and Dutch West Indies.
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Parliament passed the Quartering Act to address the practical concerns of such a troop deployment; giving soldiers homes.
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It stated that the British Parliament’s taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain.
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Rutgers is the 8th oldest university in the US and one of the nine "Colonial Colleges" founded before the American Revolution.
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The acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea imported into the colonies .
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In NorthCarolina, the Regulator movement was an organized effort by backcountry settlers to restore law and establish institutions of local government.
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Britain sends troops to occupy Boston in 1768, to help enforce the Townshend Acts.
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Dartmouth College was established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, a Congregational minister.
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This was a street fight between a mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
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This was formed throughout the colonies as a means of coordinating action against Great Britain.
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This was a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies.
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This wasa series of punitive laws passed by Parliament.
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The battles marked the outbreak of an armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its 13 colonies in North America.
