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Continuity & Change in Colonial America

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1 Continuity & Change in Colonial America
1607: Settlement of Jamestown 1619: VA House of Burgesses; 1st African Am in VA 1620: Mayflower Compact 1636: Founding of Harvard University 1639: Fundamental Orders of Connecticut 1647: Massachusetts Education Law 1649: Maryland Act of Toleration 1651: First Navigation Act 1676: Bacon’s Rebellion 1681: Wm. Penn founds Pennsylvania

2 Continuity & Change in Colonial America
1705: VA enacts slavery legislation 1733: Molasses Act 1735: Zenger Trial 1754: beginning of French & Indian War : British national debt doubles 1763: Treaty of Paris ends French & Indian War; Grenville becomes British Prime Minister; Proclamation Line enacted

3 Continuity & Change in Revolutionary America
1764: Sugar Act & Currency Act 1765: Stamp Act; Quartering Act; Stamp Act Congress meets; boycotts; Sons of Liberty riots 1766: Stamp Act repealed; Declaratory Act passed 1767: Townshend Duties 1770: Boston Massacre; Townshend Act repealed but tea tax stays 1773: Boston Tea Party 1774: Coercive Acts; First Continental Congress 1775: Lexington and Concord; Second Continental Congress meets

4 Continuity & Change in Revolutionary America
1776: Declaration of Independence by Second Continental Congress 1777: Battle of Saratoga; Articles of Confederation 1778: alliance with France 1781: Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown; states ratify Articles of Confederation 1783: Treaty of Paris ends the war


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