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United States History

18th century - 1701-1766

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Founding a Nation (1693-1743)

Personalities of 1701-1743:
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
  - Benjamin Franklin - frequently asked questions (Family, Inventions: [bifocals | lightning rod | Franklin stove | odometer]
- Samuel Adams
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1788)
- Frederick the Great
- George Washington (1732-1799)
  - The Papers of George Washington
  - George Washington
- Daniel Boone (1734-1820)
- Paul Revere (1735-1818)
- Patrick Henry (1736-1799)
- Benedict Arnold (1741-1801)
- John Adams (1735-1826) - biography
- Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818) - biography
NARA hosts America's Founding documents - Declaration of Independence, Constitutuion, Bill of Rights
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
John Hancock (1737-1793)
Ethan Allen (1738-1789)
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Catherine II (1729-1796)
George III (1738-1815)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson (1767-1845)

Relationships with others:
- Slavery
  - Slavery in Early Colonial America
  - Phillis Wheatley - America's first published black poetess

Timeline of events:
- Deerfield, Massachusetts (February 29, 1704) - Native raid during Queen Anne's War which began in 1702.(French and Indian War.)
- 1706 - Ben Franklin born
- 1709 - British-Colonial troops captured Port Royal, Nova Scotia in Queen Anne's War
- 1711 - the Tuscarora Indian war breaks out in North Carolina
- 1712 - Carolina broken into North and South colonies
- 1713 - Queen Anne's War ends - France yields Nova Scotia
- 1717 - Scots-Irish and German immigrants flood into colonies
- 1718 - New Orleans founded by French
- 1718 - Spanish found San Antonio
- 1722 - Virginia governor Alexander Spotswood negotiates a treaty with the League of Six Indian Nations
- 1724 - Lovewell's(Dummer's) War in Maine between English and French
- 1725 - slaves (75,000 in Colonies) get separate Baptist Church in Williamsburg
- 1725 - English and French build a series of forts along the New England border
- 1726 - poor people riot in Philadelphia
- 1727- King George II succeeds King George I
- 1727 - Anglo-Spanish War breaks out in Southern colonies
- 1728 - Boston bans horses and carriages from the "Commons"
- 1728 - first Jewish synagogue in New York City
- 1729 - Benjamin Franklin takes over and begins publication of the Pennsylvania Gazette which will eventually become the Saturday Evening Post
- 1730 - Baltimore is established in Maryland
- 1730 - spa at Newport, Rhode Island becomes a hot tourist spot for the colonists
- 1731 - design for Independence Hall in Philadelphia completed
- 1732 - Ben Franklin's Junto Club creates the first public library in the colonies
- 1732 - the only Catholic Church in the colonies holds its first mass
- 1732 - James Oglethorpe is granted a charter for Georgia, the last of the 13 colonies
- 1732 -Ben Franklin begins publication of Poor Richard's Almanack
- 1732 - British pass the Hat Act
- 1733 - British pass the Molasses Act
- 1734 - Jonathan Edwards sparks the Great Awakening
- 1735 - Freedom of the press recognized with printer John Peter Zenger's acquittal in New York
- 1735 - John Van Zandt whips a slave to death sparking racial tension in New York
- 1735 - women gain civic and economic power in the colonies
- 1736 - John and Charles Wesley arrive in Georgia as a guest of James Oglethorpe
- 1737 - reformers in Boston destroy a house of ill repute
- 1738 - Methodist preacher George Whitefield arrives in Savannah his electrifying sermons fuel the religious fervor of the Great Awakening
- 1738 - John Winthrop becomes mathematics chair at Harvard
- 1739 - England declares war on Spain in the War of Jenkin's Ear
- 1739 - Stono's Rebellion (September 9, 1739)
- 1739 - French explorers Pierre and Paul Mallet discover the Rockies
- 1740 - war escalates into King George's War
- 1741 - Massachusetts fishing fleet reaches 1000 boats

The French and Indian War Era (1744-1766)

Personalities of the times:
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
  - life of Thomas Jefferson
- James Madison (1751-1836)
- James Monroe (1758-1831)
- John Paul Jones
- Nathan Hale
- Robert Fulton
- Eli Whitney cotton gin patent
- Alexander Hamilton
- Noah Webster
- Betsy Ross (1752-1836)
- John Marshall (1755-1835) Marbury vs. Madison (1803)
- Marie Antoinette
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Timeline of events:
- 1743 - The American Philosophical Society is formed in Philadelphia
- 1743 - Ben Franklin retires at age 37 to pursue scientific and public ideals
- 1744 - the Morovian community in Pennsylvania organizes the Collegium Musicum which will eventually become the Philharmonic Society
- 1744 - King George's War places British and colonials against the French
- 1745 - French and English hostilities escalate in the Colonies as King George's War wears on
- 1745 - the influential writings of French political philosopher Montesquieu regarding checks and balances in government are published in Boston
- 1746 - carpenters in Georgia strike for better working conditions
- 1748 - the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle concludes King George's War
- 1748 - traders from the Ohio Company move into the Ohio River valley and Virginia frontiersman cross the Allegheny Divide
- 1749 - the English settle Halifax, Nova Scotia
- 1749 - first repertory acting company formed in Philadelphia
- 1749 - Georgia obtains permission from the Parliament to revoke their prohibition on slavery which will eventually lead to the plantation system in the South
- 1750 - English pass the Iron Act to limit production of finished iron products in the Colonies
- 1750 - the flatboat and the Conestoga wagon make their appearance
- 1751 - England passes the Currency Act prohibiting issuance of money in the Colonies
- 1752 - Ben Franklin's experiments (Franklin Institute)
- 1753 - the Delaware and Iroquois indians join forces with the French in Ohio territory
- 1754 - Ben Franklin presents his "Plan of the Union" at the Albany Congress (the plan would unite the Colonies under one President general) which is rejected by England
- 1754 - French and Indian War (Seven Year's War in Europe) and Ohio Valley-related area
  - 1754 - French and Indian War - France occupies Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh)
  - 1754 - English General Edward Braddock assumes command of English
  - 1754 - Fort Necessity National Battleground
  - Joseph Brant (Mohawk) helps to get Indian support for the British in the French and Indian War.
- Native American strategy
  - 1754 - Pontiac's rebellion (Fort Duquesne - Pittsburgh)
  - Native American friction in Ohio Valley
  - Lord Jeffrey Amherst's germ warfare with smallpox and blanket use against Native Americans in French and Indian war
- 1755 - General Braddock's forces and colonials under Lt. Col. Washington lose to French/Indian forces at the Battle of the Wilderness
- 1756 - the French and Indian War spreads to Europe as the Seven Years War
- 1757 - French forces under Marquis de Montcalm have early success against British at Fort William Henry
- 1758 - Colonists routed at Fort Ticonderoga
- 1758 - first Indian reservation formed in New Jersey at Indian Mills
- 1759 - Quebec surrenders after losing the battle of the Plains of Abraham
- 1759 - the western settlements are severely harassed by the Indians. Scalp bounties are encouraged.
- 1760 - French surrender to the English at Montreal
- 1760 - George III becomes King of England
- 1761 - English begin to clamp down on Colonies banning settlement to the west and restricting colonial activity
- 1762 - Pennsylvania begins plans for a canal linking to western territories
- 1763 - Chief Pontiac Rebellion results in destruction of English settlements on the frontier
- 1763 - King George Proclamation restricts settlement
- 1763 - the Treaty of Paris officially concludes the Seven Year War
- 1763 - the Paxton Boys riot in Pennsylvania
- 1763 - Patrick Henry successfully challenges English authority in the "Parson's Cause"
- 1763 - Royal Proclamation of October 7, 1763- Ohio Valley settlement rules
- 1764 - the Sugar Act is passed in England as the first Parliamentary act designed to raise revenue from the colonies rather than regulated trade
- 1764 - another Currency Act is passed as part of the Grenville Measures
- 1764 - Boston Lawyer James Otis publishes his views on taxation without representation
- 1764 - Chief Pontiac surrenders
- 1764 - Boston tradesmen boycott British goods
- 1765 - Stamp Act passed
- 1765 - Quartering Act passed
- 1765 - Patrick Henry presents the seven Virginia Resolutions to the House of Burgesses
- 1765 - Sons of Liberty are formed in colonial towns
- 1765 - Stamp Act Riots
- 1765 - Intolerable or Coercive Acts - March 24, 1765
- 1766 - Ben Franklin testifies before the Parliament against the Stamp Act urging repeal and warning of Revolution
- 1766 - Stamp Act repealed

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