Nation of Nations 3/e Davidson, Gienapp, Heyrman, Lytle, and Stoff
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KEY EVENTS

1689-1697 King William's War (War of the League of Augsburg): England and France fight in Europe and the Americas

1702 Anne becomes queen of England

1702-1713 Queen Anne's War (War of the Spanish Succession): the second war for empire between England and France

1714 George I becomes king of England, beginning Hanover dynasty

1727 George II becomes king of England

1730s-1740s Rise in importation of black slaves in Northern Colonies: slavery begins to replace indentured servitude.

1739 George Whitefield's first preaching tour in America: initiates the first Great Awakening

Stono Rebellion in South Carolina: the largest slave insurrection on the colonial North American mainland

1744-1748 King George's War (War of the Austrian Succession): the third war for empire between England and France

1751 Franklin's essay on population

1754 The Albany Congress: a failed attempt to bring political unity to the colonies

Washington surrenders at Fort Necessity

1760-1769 South Carolina Regulation: sectional unrest in the southern backcountry

1763 Paxton Boys' March on Philadelphia: sectional unrest in western Pennsylvania

1766 Tenant rebellion in New York

1766-1771 North Carolina Regulation: sectional tension in the southern backcountry culminates in the Battle of Alamance, 1771

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