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  2. Colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the course of the war, British officers trained American ones for battle, most notably George Washington, which benefitted the American cause during the Revolution. Also, colonial legislatures and officials had to cooperate intensively, for the first time, in pursuit of the continent-wide military effort. [ 82 ]

  3. Timeline of Colonial America - Wikipedia

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    300 B.C. – Maize first grown in Eastern North America. 100 B.C. – A.D. 400 – The Hopewell tradition flourishes. 600 – Emergence of Mississippian culture. 700 – Use of the bow and arrow becomes widespread among peoples of Eastern North America. 1000 – Leif Ericson explores the east coast of North America. [1]

  4. Age of Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The Age of Revolution is a period from the late-18th to the mid-19th centuries during which a number of significant revolutionary movements occurred in most of Europe and the Americas. [2] The period is noted for the change from absolutist monarchies to representative governments with a written constitution, and the creation of nation states.

  5. York County’s Black experience: From slavery to a history ...

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    That Nov. 15, 1777, and Nov. 15, 2023, linkage gives us an opportunity to briefly assess the lives and times of Black York County residents in the 1700s and early 2020s.

  6. How a Spanish land grant from the 1700s is affecting ... - AOL

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    The bloodshed of the American Revolution had just come to end. It was 1784, and with the signing of the Treaty of Paris months earlier, Britain had finally recognized the 13 colonies.

  7. History of the United States (1789–1815) - Wikipedia

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    In response to continued British interference with American shipping (including the practice of impressment of American sailors into the British Navy), and to British aid to American Indians in the Old Northwest, the Twelfth Congress—led by Southern and Western Jeffersonians—declared war on Britain in 1812. Westerners and Southerners were ...

  8. American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    During this time, the kingdom of France entered as an ally of the United States. The decisive victory came in the fall of 1781, when the combined American and French armies captured an entire British army in the Siege of Yorktown. The defeat led to the collapse of King George's control of Parliament, with a majority now in favor of ending the ...

  9. Timeline of the 18th century - Wikipedia

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    1718: The city of New Orleans is founded by the French in North America. 1718: Blackbeard (Edward Teach) is killed by Robert Maynard in a North Carolina inlet on the inner side of Ocracoke Island. 1718–1730: Tulip period of the Ottoman Empire. 1719: The Spanish attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails. 1719: Second Javanese War of ...