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Hace 1 día · The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States after the Revolutionary War. In the late 16th century, England, France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic launched major colonization expeditions in ...
Hace 1 día · In the late 1760s and early 1770s, several colonies, including Massachusetts and Virginia, attempted to restrict the slave trade, but were prevented from doing so by royally appointed governors. [249] : 245 In 1774, as part of a broader non-importation movement aimed at Britain, the Continental Congress called on all the colonies to ban the importation of slaves, and the colonies passed acts ...
Hace 5 días · The First Continental Congress, convened in response to the Acts by the colonial Committees of Correspondence, met in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774. Fifty-six deputies represented all the colonies except Georgia. Peyton Randolph of Virginia was unanimously elected president, thus establishing usage of that term as well as “Congress.”.
Thomas Hutchinson (born September 9, 1711, Boston, Massachusetts [U.S.]—died June 3, 1780, London, England) was the royal governor of the British North American Province of Massachusetts Bay (1771–74) whose stringent measures helped precipitate colonial unrest and eventually the American Revolution (1775–83).
Hace 4 días · 1770s. 1770 in literature – Épître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs – Voltaire; 1771 in literature – Jacques the Fatalist (to 1773) – Denis Diderot. Death of Thomas Gray; Tobias Smollett; 1772 in literature – Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
Hace 2 días · The history of this structure reflects the state of colonial rule in this part of the Spanish empire. Until the Crown began investing in trade routes through the Rio de la Plata region in the 1770s, this area was a sparsely populated region with a small, weak government.
28 de dic. de 2023 · Wedgwood was born in 1730 into a family of struggling potters living in Burslem, the center of pottery making in North Staffordshire. In the early 20th century, Burslem merged with five nearby towns to become Stoke-on-Trent, a substantial city. During the mid-1700s, however, it was a hamlet of small potteries producing wares for English tables.
