Spencer Mrs. Branin 5th grade Timeline of Colonial Events Spencer Mrs. Branin 5th grade

1729 Ben Franklin establishes Philadelphia’s first newspaper, it is called The Pennsylvania Gazette. Ben Franklin did many other things for Philadelphia such as helping establish its first fire station, police force, public library, and the city’s first college. It later became the university of Pennsylvania.

1735 Trial of John Peter Zenger. The Zenger trial is a remarkable story of a divided Colony, the beginnings of a free press.

1739 Stone slave rebellion in South Carolina. The Stone Slave Rebellion was the largest insurrection in British North America. It was when African American Slaves killed two store owners as they tried to escape.

1744 Eliza Lucas Pinckney successfully grows indigo. Southern plantations grew tobacco, rice, and indigo, which they sold to buyers in England and elsewhere in America.

1750 The colonies have 250,000 enslaved persons. Slavery started because land owners needed a lot of people to work on their land. Colonist traded items such as, Rum, and Guns for slaves.

1760 More Europeans arrive in the colonies. By 1770, more than 2 million people lived and worked in Great Britain's 13 North American colonies. Colonists from all over Europe were welcomed in the Middle colonies Europeans who settled in the Middle colonies included: Dutch, German, Scottish, Irish, Portuguese, Swedish, and English immigrants.

1775 Philadelphia was the largest colonial city. Philadelphia was a city of many ethnic and religious groups. Many, doctors, lawyers, business owners, silversmiths, and crafts workers lived in Philadelphia.

1720-1765 The Colonial Economies Agriculture- In the early 1700s, agriculture, or the business of farming, was the way of life for most people Industry-In time the colonies started several industries. Free enterprise- By building their own ships the colonists took a step toward having a free enterprise.

1750-1770 Colonial Governments Assembly- The first meeting of Virginia’s assembly, the House of Burgesses, took place in 1619. Legislation- Colonial assemblies decided how tax money would be spent and even wrote legislation. Delegates- Most of the delegates, or members of the assembly, were wealthy landowners, lawyers, or merchants.