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Slave owners could not be convicted for killing a slave and black Virginians who struck white colonists would be severely whipped.
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Arrives as a missionary in Charles Town and is disillusioned by the horrors of slavery.
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This was a collection of sermons whose preface was written by Increase Mather asking settlers to remember why their ancestors came to America that led to the Great Awakening.
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A rebellion resulted in the death of 9 white colonists. Retribution would see 21 executed, and 6 committed suicide.
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War between Native American tribes and the settlers of colonial South Carolina. Their first victims were traders. They killed the emissaries sent by the colony and many English traders.
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The shop in Annapolis brought a stable local trade in printing and books to the Chesapeake.
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Protestant revivals crisscrossed the Atlantic founding a participatory religious movement.
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Puritan Jonathan Edwards preached against worldly sins and inspired his congregation to look for God's saving grace. His congregation went into violent convulsions during the winter.
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Native Delaware leaders agreed to sell Pennsylvania all land that a man could walk in a day and a half but planning and hiring of skilled runners enabled them to purchase more land than intended and caused ill feelings.
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Approximately 80 slaves set out for Spanish Florida under a banner stating "Liberty" and killed approximately 20 colonists during their march.
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Killing rebellious slaves was not a crime and murder of a slave was a minor misdemeanor.
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Another rebellion in New York was foiled executing 32 slaves, free blacks, and 5 free whites. 70 slaves were deported.
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James Davenport led his congregation to be saved by dancing naked in circles at night while screaming and laughing, or burning books he disapproved of.
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The First of the Currency Acts that prohibited the issue of new bills of credit by New England colonies.
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France and Britain's feud over boundaries came to a head when a French diplomat was killed by a group of Native Americans and British colonists led by George Washington.
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The scholar and businessman suggested a plan to unify the government of the 13 colonies.
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British-allied Frederick II of Prussia invades neutral Saxony causing a coalition to form including France, Austria, Russia, and Sweden who attacked Prussia and the German stated allied with them.
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One of the French's early victories in The Seven Years' War. The Indians attacked the fallen British after the Fort was taken by the French.
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Pivotal conflict in the Seven Years' War.
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The French thwarted the attack by General Abercrombie at Ticonderoga in the Battle of Carillon.
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1759 was considered by the British to be the year of miracles bringing about the fall of French Canada.
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British general James Wolfe defeated French general Louis-Jseph de Montcalm outside of Quebec City.
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War ended with the surrender of Montreal.
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He brought Tories into his government after 3 decades of Whig rule.
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A prophet receives a vision from the Master of Life instructing him to lead his people away from British influence and banish them from their land.
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The Anglo-Spanish War was part of the Seven Years' War that ended in February of with the Treaty of Paris.
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The peace treaties of Paris and Hubertusburg ended the war giving the British much of Canada and North America. The Prussians retained Silesia
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Pontiac and 300 warriors were unsuccessful in attacking Fort Detroit resulting in a 6-month siege of the fort.
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This coalition staged a game of stickball outside the fort chasing the ball into the fort and gathering arms smuggled in by Native American women. They killed almost half of the fort's British soldiers.
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Ottawa leader, Pontiac, leads warriors from Native American tribes in rising up against the British. Many British forts are attacked.
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Second currency act passed by British Parliament to regulate the issue and legal tender status of paper money in the colonial economy.
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Created the proclamation line marking the Appalachian Mountains as the boundary between Indian country and British colonies.
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Also known as the American Revenue Act or the American Duties Act sought to combat widespread smuggling of molasses in New England by cutting the duty in half and increasing enforcement.
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The Virginia Resolves passed declaring that colonists were entitled the same things as the people of Great Britain. Patrick Henry made a speech before the House to encourage the passage.
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Colonial leaders come together to oppose taxes imposed by Parliament and boycott British goods. The delegates were from 9 colonies and included Benjamin Franklin, John Dickinson, Thomas Hutchinson, Philip Livingston, and James Otis.
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Giving Parliament full power over the colonies.
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Disease and a shortage of supplies undermined the Native American efforts. Pontiac settled for peace at Fort Ontario.
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Creating new customs duties on items such as lead, glass, paint, and tea.
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On the border of North and South Carolina to immigrants from northern Ireland.
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British troops arrived in the city of Boston and occupied the city. Tensions led to the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party.
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Parliament under Frederick Lord North repealed the Townshend duties except for those on tea. This was to save face and assert that Parliament still retained the right to tax the colonies.
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British soldiers respond to a riot outside a custom house killing 5 Bostonians.
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The Regulating Act put the company under government control and The Tea Act allowed the company to sell its tea in the colonies directly without the usual import duties.
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Bostonians emptied the tea from 3 ships in the harbor into the water to prevent the West Indian Company from bring their tea ashore.
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Extralegal assemblies that seized the power of the royal governments.
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Committees of Correspondence sent delegates to coordinate an intercolonial response.
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British regiments attempting to seize local militia arms and powder were met by colonial resistance. Shots were fired beginning war.
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War had already broken out in Massachusetts.
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Colonial militia set up fortifications on Breed's Hill overlooking Boston where the British attempted an assault.
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Final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain
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Signed by John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore that promised freedom to any slaves who would escape their masters and join the British cause.
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The Philadelphia Printer released many copies of Thomas Paine's document.
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Congress passed a resolution recommending to the several assemblies and conventions to institute such forms of government as to them shall appear necessary to promote the happiness of the people.
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Congress passes Richard Henry Lee's statement that the United Colonies should be free, independent states completely separated from Great Britain.
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Final text of the Declaration was approved on July 4.
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Intending to secure the Hudson River, the Continental Army defeated Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York.
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First of two treaties between the U.S. and France recognizing the independence of the United States.
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312 town delegates gathered in Massachusetts debating constitution drafts and offering suggestions.
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British landing force under the command of General William Tryon attacked the town, engaged and defeated its militia forces burning the town.
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Stipulated that freed children must serve an indenture term of twenty-eight years initiating a gradual phasing out of slavery.
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Principally authored by John Adams, organized into a structure of chapters, sections, and articles influencing later revisions of many states' constitutions.
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Allowed each state one vote in the Continental Congress. Congress was given no power to levy or collect taxes, regulate foreign or interstate commerce, or establish a federal judiciary. Continental Congress adopted the Articles November 15, 1777 but all 13 states did not ratify until 1781.
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Peace negotiations took place in France. The Treaty of Paris was signed bringing an official end to the Revolutionary War.
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They formed a new American denomination utilizing circuit riders.
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Jefferson proposed that black people were of inferior intelligence unable to improve and suggested that they had a different ancestry.
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Liverpool firm, Peel, Yates, & Co. brought the 1st 7 bales of cotton from America to Europe
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Jefferson had proposed this in 1779 but failed. Madison revisited and it passed defeating a bill that would have given equal revenue to all Protestant churches.
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Farmers in Massachusetts took up arms to protect their rights and demanding redress for the people's grievances in the "Spirit of 1776".
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New England and the Deep South agreed at the Constitutional Convention to protect foreign trade for 20 years but South Carolina and Georgia delegates had to support making it easier for Congress to pass commercial legislation.
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North and West of the Ohio River
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Further articulated the theory of racial change and suggested that improving the social environment would tap into the innate equality of humankind uplifting non-white races.
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12 state delegates convened in Philadelphia. All but Rhode Island.
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The vote carries 187 to 168
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Pawtucket textile mill engages Samuel Slater to build a yarn spinning maching and a carding machine from British plans.
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Thousands gathered in New York to witness.
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South Carolina revised its constitution removing the establishment clause.
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Ten amendments produced by the anti-federalist debates
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On the production, sale, and consumption of goods to include whiskey. This sparked the Whiskey Rebellion that would last until 1794.
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The Constitutional Convention of 1787 agreed that the national government should not have an official religion. The First Amendment guaranteed religious liberty.
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Successful slave revolt against French colonial rule in the West Indies.
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20 year charter approved by Congress
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16 men dressed in women's clothes assaulted tax collector, Robert Johnson stealing his horse and abandoning him in the forest.
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A slave in Virginia became famous when white spots appeared on his body turning him visibly white within 3 years.
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"Citizen" Edmond-Charles Genet arrived and toured many cities encouraging Americans to act against Spain by attacking its colonies in Florida and Louisiana.
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The 1st of 2 slave acts which authorized local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners and impose penalties on anyone aiding in their flight.
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Confederacy of Shawnee, Delaware, Miami, Iroquois, Ojibwe, Ottawa, Huron, Potawatomi, Mingo, Chickamauga and others who were waging war against the American Republicans were defeated.
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Machine for deseeding cotton
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President Washington had declared in 1793 that the U.S. would remain neutral in the British-French War. "Jay's Treaty" ended military presence in the Northwest Territory of the U.S.by 1796, but failed to end impressment.
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Formerly the /treaty with the Wyadots was between the U.S. and Indians of the Northwest Territory redifining the boundaries between Indian and white man's land.
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He warned that there was a danger to the establishment in too much partisanship.
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Described Jefferson's principles as a slippery slope to dangerous racial equality
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Having moved to Tennessee where he had a plantation and worked as a lawyer. He was elected to the Senate in 1797 but resigned within a year.
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President Adams sent diplomats to France to deter the authorization of the French government for their vessels to attack American shipping. The Americans code-named French officials X, Y, and Z and implied that negotiations could only take place if the French were offered bribes. This infuriated the American citizens.
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Massachusetts minister, Jedidiah Morse announced to his congregation that the French Revolution was spared by a conspiracy led by a mysterious anti-Christian organization. This led to increased fear of the French by Americans.
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Arguments that the national government's authority is limited to the powers expressly granted by the U.S. Constitution and that states could declare federal laws unconstitutional.
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Intended to prevent French agents and sympathizers from compromising American resistance. It allowed the government to deport foreign nationals who seemed to pose a national security threat. The Sedition Ace allowed the government to prosecute anyone found to be speaking or publishing against the government.
