18th Century Turning Points in U.S. History

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As the 18th Century dawned on the North American continent, four powers; the French, the Spanish, the British and the American Indians were competing to see who would control this remarkable land. 64 pivotal events of this period are depicted.

As the 18th century dawned on the North American continent, four powers, the French, the Spanish, the British and the Native Americans were competing to see who would control this remarkable land. However after half a century of almost continuous wars, a new entity emerged: The Americans. It would be the Americans not the other four powers who would control what would become the United States. In the process, the Americans created, by the end of the 18th century, the greatest experiment in self-government the world has ever seen.

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1701-171327 minutes$3.99
1701-The English Board of Trade Creates Royal Colonies4 minutes$1.99
1701- French Return Soldiers to the North American Interior3 minutes$1.99
1701 -Yale College is Founded3 minutes$1.99
1702 - Colonists Sack St. Augustine3 minutes$1.99
1702 - Cotton Mather publishes "The Ecclesiastical History of New England"3 minutes$1.99
1709 - Quakers Erect a Meeting House in Boston3 minutes$1.99
1713 - Treaty of Utrecht3 minutes$1.99
1713 - Capt Robinson Designs and Constructs a Schooner4 minutes$1.99
1714 - 173527 minutes$3.99
1718 - New Orleans is founded4 minutes$1.99
1723 - The Maryland Assembly Requires Free Public Schools in Every County3 minutes$1.99
1729 - The City of Baltimore is Established3 minutes$1.99
1732 - The First Stagecoach Line2 minutes$1.99
1732 - Georgia Becomes the 13th Colony3 minutes$1.99
1732 - Influenza Sweeps Through the Colonies3 minutes$1.99
1733 - The British Parliament Passes the Molasses Act3 minutes$1.99
1735 Peter Zenger Acquitted of Libel in New York4 minutes$1.99
1736 - 175026 minutes$3.99
1739 - The Great Awakening Begins4 minutes$1.99
1739 - Black Uprising in South Carolina3 minutes$1.99
1739 - The War of Jenkins Ear Begins3 minutes$1.99
1739-41 - New Explorations3 minutes$1.99
1747 - The Ohio Land Company is Established3 minutes$1.99
1750 - Native American Cultures Dominate the Great Plains3 minutes$1.99
1750 - Parliament Passes Iron Act4 minutes$1.99
1750 - 176627 minutes$3.99
1750 - The Flatboat and Conestoga Wagon4 minutes$1.99
1754 - The Albany Plan of Union2 minutes$1.99
1754 -1763 The French and Indian War5 minutes$1.99
1760 - James Otis Fights for the Security of People in Their Homes2 minutes$1.99
1763 - Ottawa Chief Pontiac's War for Independence4 minutes$1.99
1765 - The Stamp Act is Passed3 minutes$1.99
1765 - Samuel Adams Forms the Sons of Liberty3 minutes$1.99
1766 - John Singleton Copley Paints "Boys with the Squirrel"2 minutes$1.99
1767 - 177627 minutes$3.99
1767 - Daniel Boone Views Kentucky2 minutes$1.99
1768 - Indiana Co. buys 1,800,000 acres from the Iroquois2 minutes$1.99
1769 - Father Juniper Serra Founds the San Diego Mission2 minutes$1.99
1770 - The Liberty Pole Riot and the Boston Massacre3 minutes$1.99
1773 - The Boston Tea Party3 minutes$1.99
1774 - The First Continental Congress Meets in Philadelphia2 minutes$1.99
1775 - Battle of Lexington and Concord2 minutes$1.99
1775 - George Washington Commands Continental Army3 minutes$1.99
1776 - Thomas Paine Publishes "Common Sense"3 minutes$1.99
1776 - The Declaration of Independence3 minutes$1.99
1776 - 178328 minutes$3.99
1776 - Washington Crosses the Delaware4 minutes$1.99
1777 - Congress Mandates the American Flag2 minutes$1.99
1777 - Second Battle of Saratoga4 minutes$1.99
1777 - John Paul Jones Sets Sail3 minutes$1.99
1777-78 - The Winter at Valley Forge4 minutes$1.99
1778 - George Rogers Clark Captures Kaskaskia4 minutes$1.99
1781 - The Siege of Yorktown3 minutes$1.99
1783 - The Treaty of Paris and the End of The Revolutionary War2 minutes$1.99
1783 - 179027 minutes$3.99
1783 - Noah Webster Issues "Blue-backed Speller"2 minutes$1.99
1785 - 1787 - Continental Congress Passes Land Ordinance Acts3 minutes$1.99
1786 - Shay's Rebellion2 minutes$1.99
1787 - The United States Constitution is Created5 minutes$1.99
1789 - George Washington Elected First President2 minutes$1.99
1789 - James Madison Proposes the Bill of Rights3 minutes$1.99
1789 - Alexander Hamilton becomes Secretary of the Treasury and Shapes America's Modern Industrial E3 minutes$1.99
1790 - Benjamin Franklin Dies4 minutes$1.99
1791 - 179925 minutes$3.99
1792 - Benjamin Banneker saves the White House2 minutes$1.99
1793 - Congress enacts a Fugitive Slave Law3 minutes$1.99
1794 - The Whiskey Rebellion is Put Down3 minutes$1.99
1794 & 1795 - The Jay and Pinckney Treaties Protect America's Westward Expansion3 minutes$1.99
1796 - John Adams becomes the Second President of United States Inaugurating the Two-Party System3 minutes$1.99
1797 - U.S.S. Constitution is Launched2 minutes$1.99
1798 - Alien and Sedition Acts Usher in a Bleak Period of American Political Freedom3 minutes$1.99
1799 - Eulogy for George Washington Ends the Century4 minutes$1.99
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