Colonial Heritage
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Updated: 16 Jan 2019
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Created byWilliam Bell
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Late 1600s England began trading with the colonist.
.Molasses Act of 1733
.1764 - Sugar Act is put into place
.Samuel Adams agreed with Otis and at a Boston town meeting in May 1764 they created a slogan: “No Taxation without Representation”
.With the pressure of merchants in Britain, in 1766 the act was repealed.
.June 1767 Placed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
.Boston Massacre
.In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
.Conquistador Hernan Cortes sailes to America 1519
.Conquistador Francisco Pizarro sailes to America 1534
.Jacques Cartier explores America 1524
.Sir Walter Raleigh 1584
.1510 Spain allowed slavery in its colonies.
.1619 - Virginia established the 1st colonial legislature.
.In 1686 the Dominion of New England was founded - northern colonies under one government under Sir Edmund Andros
.1733 - John Peter Zenger arrested for speaking out against the government
.Tea Act of 1773 - allowed British East India Company to sell directly to the colonist
.April 19, 1775
“Shot heard around the world.
.May 1775
12 colonies met in Philly
2nd group to meet - still unified
Represented 1st Republican government in the colonies
.The 13 colonies adopted the Declaration of independence on July 4, 1776 -
Signed on August 2, 1776
E pluribus unum - “Out of many, one”
.Winter of 1777-1778
Men were tired, cold, and didn’t have the supplies to survive
Conflict over who should provide aid - which states
2,000 soldiers died from disease and malnutrition
The surviving soldiers didn’t quit, but rather become stronger and betterIn 1781 the war wasn’t going well
Low on money
War was dragging on
Benedict Arnold - one of the most gifted officers, became a traitor
.Periods
Between 1520s & 1860s, 12 million Africans were solved into the slave trade
.Great Awakening - A religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s -1740s
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