1. Lisa Mrs. Branin 5th Grade
Timeline of
Coloinal Events
Lisa
Mrs. Branin
5th Grade

2. 1729 Ben Franklin establishes Philadelphia’s first newspaper.
Just two months before Benjamin Franklin died he signed a request to Congress urging to end slavery.

3. 1735 Trial of John Peter Zenger.
The Zenger trial is a remarkable story of a divided Colony, the beginnings of a free press.

4. 1739
Stone slave rebellion in South Carolina.

5. 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.

6. 1750
The colonies have 250,000 enslaved persons.

7. 1760 More Europeans in the colonies.
By 1770, more than 2 million people lived in and worked in Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies.
Europeans who settled in the Middle Colonies included: Dutch, German, Scottish, Irish, Portuguese, Swedish, and English immigrants.

8. 1775
Philadelphia is the largest colonial city.

9. 1720- 1765 The Colonial Economies
Agriculture , or the business of farming, was the way of life for most people.
Industry is all the business that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service.
By building their own ships the colonists took a step toward having a free enterprise economy.

10. 1750- 1770 Colonial Governments
The first meeting of Virginia's assembly, the House of burgesses, took place in 1619.
Legislation is the making or passing of laws.
Most of the delegates, or members of the assembly, were wealthy landowners, lawyers, or merchants.