Timeline and Terms

Events

African Americans barred from office in Virginia
Albany Congress
Anne Hutchinson banished
Ascension of George III
Attack on Deerfield, Massachusetts
Bacon’s Rebellion
Benjamin Franklin’s kite-and-key demonstration
Charter for William Penn
Charter of Carolina
Cherokee War
Colonial population 20 percent African
Crown control of Virginia
Dominion of New England established
First colonial newspaper
First Navigation Act
First permanent English settlement in Carolina
Founding of Yale College
French and Indian War
Georgia founded
Indigo a major crop
Iroquois neutrality
King George’s War
Land grant for Maryland
Leisler’s Rebellion
Massachusetts became a royal colony
Molasses Act
New Navigation Act
Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind
Opechancanough attacked colonists again
Peace of Paris
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Poor Richard’s Almanack
Puritan migration to Massachusetts Bay
Quakers executed in Boston
Salem witchcraft trials
Scots-Irish and German immigration
Smallpox inoculation introduced
Treaty of Utrecht
Tuscarora War
United Colonies of New England established
Witchcraft executions in Salem
Writs of assistance in Boston
Yamasee War

People

Absalom Jones
Ann Lee
Anthony Benezet
Benjamin Franklin
George Whitefield
Gilbert Tennent
Jacob Leisler
James Blair
James Davenport
Jonathan Edwards
Pontiac
Theodorus Frelinghuysen
Venture Smith
William Penn
William Tennent Sr.

Places

Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Maryland
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Virginia

Organizations

Albany Congress
Dominion of New England
House of Burgesses
Quakers