Washington Crossing

Washington Crossing

Middle School 9/18 Colonial America (1630-1763)

Timeline Events


1630 Puritans settle Massachusetts Bay

1636 Harvard College established (Cambridge, MA)

1640 Great Awakening begins

1670 Charles Town was founded

1676 Bacon’s Rebellion

1752 Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiment

1754-1763 French and Indian War

Homework Assignment

Research at least one of the taxes and laws imposed on the colonists before the Revolutionary War.  Add to your spiral.  How did the colonists receive the new law? Was it fair? Why or why not. How did it affect the colonists?

Sugar Act, Declaratory Act, Townshend Act, Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Coercive Acts, and Quebec Act

Fact

#2. Benjamin Franklin did not go to school past the age of 10.

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