History chapter 3
894904307 | Enlightenment | 1600 | 1 | |
894904308 | Harvard | founded first American College named after a Charlestown minister, John Harvard in 1636. Established by Puritan theologians to create a place to train ministers | 2 | |
894904309 | printing press | First operated in the colonies in 1639, by 1695 there were more printing presses in American than England. | 3 | |
894904310 | 1647 | Massachusetts law states that every town needs to provide for schooling | 4 | |
894904311 | 1662 | Halfway covenant | 5 | |
894904312 | 1685 | Huguenots migrate to America | 6 | |
894904313 | 1692 | Salem witchcraft trials | 7 | |
894904314 | 1693 | College of William and Mary (after the King and Queen) | 8 | |
894904316 | 1701 | Yale founded in New Haven CT by benefactor Elihu Yale because of liberalism of Harvard. | 9 | |
894904317 | 1720 | Cotton Mather starts smallpox innoculations | 10 | |
894904318 | 1734 | Great Awakening begins | 11 | |
894904319 | 1739 | George Whitefield arrives in America/Great Awakening intensifies/Stono Slave rebellion | 12 | |
894904320 | 1740 | Indigo production begins | 13 | |
894904321 | 1746 | Collegeof NJ becomes Princeton NJ First president was Jonathan Edwards | 14 | |
894904322 | 1755 | University of Pennsylvania | 15 | |
894904323 | 1763 | Paxton Boys-band of PA frontiersmen decended on Philly to demand tax relief and financial support for defenses against Indians. Bloodshed averted by concession from the colonial assembly. | 16 | |
894904324 | 1764 | Sugar Act was a raised the duty on sugar while lower the duty on Molasses. (Currency Act the same year). | 17 | |
894904325 | 1765 | Mutiny Act required colonists to provide quartering to British soldiers.British ship searched for smugglers. | 18 | |
894904326 | 1765 | Stamp Act tax on every printed document. Strictly attempt to raise revenues. Affects everyone. | 19 | |
894904327 | 1766 | Stamp Act repealed | 20 | |
894904328 | 1767 | Charles Townshend dies | 21 | |
894904329 | 1770 | Lord North repeals all the Townshend Acts except the tax on tea. | 22 |