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Chapter Timeline

CHAPTER REVIEW

TIMELINEAsk yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.
1695

  • Licensing Act lapses in England, triggering the print revolution
1710s–1730s

  • Enlightenment ideas spread from Europe to America

  • Germans and Scots-Irish settle in Middle colonies

  • Theodore Jacob Frelinghuysen preaches Pietism to German migrants
1720s–1730s

  • William and Gilbert Tennent lead Presbyterian revivals among Scots-Irish

  • Jonathan Edwards preaches in New England
1729

  • Benjamin Franklin founds the Pennsylvania Gazette
1739

  • George Whitefield sparks Great Awakening
1740s–1760s

  • Conflict between Old Lights and New Lights

  • Shortage of farmland in New England threatens freehold ideal

  • Growing ethnic and religious pluralism in Middle Atlantic colonies

  • Religious denominations establish colleges
1743

  • Benjamin Franklin founds American Philosophical Society

  • Samuel Morris starts Presbyterian revivals in Virginia
1748

  • Ohio Company receives grant of 200,000 acres from the crown
1749

  • Connecticut farmers form Susquehanna Company
1750s

  • Industrial Revolution begins in England

  • British shipping dominates North Atlantic

  • Consumer purchases increase American imports and debt
1754

  • French and Indian War begins

  • Iroquois and colonists meet at Albany Congress

  • Franklin’s Plan of Union
1756

  • Britain begins Great War for Empire
1759–1760

  • Britain completes conquest of Canada
1760s

  • Land conflict along New York and New England border

  • Baptist revivals win converts in Virginia
1763

  • Pontiac’s Rebellion leads to Proclamation of 1763

  • Treaty of Paris ends Great War for Empire

  • Scots-Irish Paxton Boys massacre Indians in Pennsylvania
1771

  • Royal governor puts down Regulator revolt in North Carolina

Question

KEY TURNING POINTS: The Ohio Company grant (1748), the formation of the Susquehanna Company (1749), land conflict along New York and New England border (1760s), and the defeat of the North Carolina Regulators (1771). How do these events reveal tensions over the question of who would control the development of frontier lands in Britain’s mainland North American colonies? What were the effects of these conflicts on Native American populations?