Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Newspapers in colonial America
  • Censorship, printing control, and freedom of the press, 1690
  • Inoculation controversy, 1721
  • Impartiality, objectivity, and the press, 1729
  • Attakulakula visits King George II, 1730: Native American-English relations
  • Trial of John Peter Zenger, 1735
  • Women's rights, 1738
  • Stono Rebellion, 1739
  • Great Awakening and George Whitefield, 1739-1745
  • Religious divisions, 1740-1745
  • Massachusetts legalizes lotteries, 1744
  • Medical discoveries and the amazing "Chinese stones," 1745
  • Paper money and the Currency Act, 1751
  • New York public education controversy, 1753-1755
  • Albany Congress, the Plan of Union, and the French and Indian War, 1754-1763
  • Cherokee War, 1759-1761
  • Stamp Act crisis, 1765-1766
  • "No taxation without representation," 1765-1766
  • The Sons of Liberty, 1765-1776
  • Tories versus patriots, 1768-1775
  • Nonimportation agreements, 1768-1775
  • Boston Massacre, 1770
  • Religious liberty: Baptists call for toleration, 1770-1776
  • Somerset case and the anti-slavery controversy, 1772
  • Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party, 1773-1774
  • Continental Congress, 1774-1775
  • Edenton Tea Party and perceptions of women, 1774
  • Arguments over going to war with England, 1774-1776
  • Separation from England, 1768-1776
  • Battles of Lexington and Concord, 1775
  • Declaration of Independence, 1776.