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Year 2, Unit 4
Week 28
Franklin's Junto Club
1727
% complete
Franklin starts the Junto Club
First Great Awakening
1730 - 1740
% complete
The First subscription library
1731
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Franklin starts the Library Company of Philadelphia
Poor Richard's Almanac
1733
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John Wesley's missionary trip
1735 - 1737
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A missionary trip to Georgia, he encounters the Moravians
George Whitefield first preaches
1738
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American Philosophical Society
1743
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Founded by (who else?) Benjamin Franklin to help scientific men discuss theories and the Academy and College of Philadephia.
English prisoners die in the Black Hole of Calcutta
1756
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Battle of Plassey
1757
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Gives British control over India
Week 29
Haydn
1732 - 1809
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Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer
The French and Indian War
1754 - 1763
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In America, sparked by the first shots of Washington at Fort Duquesne
The Seven Years' War
1756 - 1763
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In Europe and Canada began with Frederick II's invasion of the German state of Saxony
British capture Quebec
1759
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George III's reign
1760 - 1820
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Montreal surrender
1760
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to the British, giving them complete control of New France
Pontiac Rebellion
1763 - 1766
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Proclamation Line
1763
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Treaty of Paris
1763
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Ends French presence in North America and ends the French and Indian War
Week 30
Stamp Act
1765
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Townshend Acts
1767
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Captian Cook's expedition
1768 - 1771
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... to the Pacific charts New Zealand and Australia
Boston Massacre
1770
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Boston Tea Party
1773
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First Continental Congress
1774
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Louis XVI coronation
1774
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The Intolerable Acts
1774
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By dear ol' George III
Week 33
Daniel Boone
1735 - 1820
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Adventures by Boone
1775
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Boone blazes the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap and founds Boonesborough. Humble.
Articles of Confederation in effect
1777 - 1787
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America is governed by the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union.
Shay's Rebellion
1786 - 1787
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Congress - Northwest Ordinance
1787
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Congress passes the Northwest Ordinance.
Prussian helps the House of Orange
1787
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Prussian soldiers help the House of Orange put down rebellion in the Netherlands
France holds elections
1788 - 1789
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France holds elections and draws up cadres for the meeting of the Estates-General. Unrest increases.
Louis XVI agrees...
1788
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to reconvene the Estates-General
2nd partition of Poland
1793
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Done by Prussia and Russia, for crying out loud.
Week 34
Constitutional Convention
May 1787 - September 1787
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In Sept, the Constitution is completed, signed, and offered to the States for ratification.
Week 35
1st US President
1789
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Guess who this guy was?
French constitutional monarchy
1789
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... created
French Nat Assembly takes control
1789
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....As the voice of the people
French Revolution
1789 - 1799
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Storming of the Bastille
July 14, 1789
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Bill of Rights
1791
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... included in the Constitution
Estates-General meets
1791
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France at war
1792 - 1797
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...with European neighbors
LouEtte killed
1793
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Louis XVI + Marie Antoinette are executed (like my ship name?)
Reign of Terror
1793 - 1794
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Directory rules
1795 - 1799
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... France
Napoleon seizes power
1799
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Week 36
John Adams
1797 - 1801
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is POTUS
XYZ Affair
1797
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Congress passes A&SA
1798
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Alien and Sedition Acts
KY + VA Resolutions
1798
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Quasi-War
1798 - 1799
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with France