Harsh Desai

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Timeline of Colonial Events

• Harsh Desai
• Mrs. Branin
• 5th Grade

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1729

• Ben Franklin establishes Philadelphia's first
  newspaper. Which was called the Pennsylvania
  Gazette. Later in his year he discovered that
  lighting is electricity.

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1735

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

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1739

• Stone slave rebellion in South Carolina. Their
  was a captive named Cato led a rebellion in which
  30 colonist in South Carolina were killed.

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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.

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1750

• The colonies have 250,000 enslaved persons. It
  was very crowded. A Quaker named John Woolman
  wrote that the color of man should have equal
  equality.

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1760

• More Europeans, arrive in the colonies.
• By 1770, more than 2 million people lived and
  worked in Great Britains 13 North American
  Colonies.
• Colonist 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.

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1775

• Philadelphia is the largest colonial city. It is
  in Pennsylvania and Benjamin Franklin helped
  established it.

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1720-1765

• Agriculture- the business of farming, was the
  way of life for most people.
• Industry- Shipbuilding was a major industry
  because the colonist didnt want to buy the ships
  from England always.
• Free Enterprise- is a system for people so they
  can start any business they wanted to.

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1750-1770Colonial Governments

• Assembly- is a meeting for the people of the town
  or which ever group.
• Legislation- I the making or the passing of laws.
  
• Delegates- are member s of an assembly, wealthy
  landowners, and lawyers.