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Chapter 4: The Mosaic Of Eighteenth-Century America


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Chapter 4: The Mosaic of Eighteenth-Century America

1689-97 King William’s War (War of the League of Augsburg)

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

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

Stono Rebellion in South Carolina: slave insurrection

1744-48 King George’s War (War of the Austrian Succession): the third war for empire between England and France

1754 The Albany Congress: failed to bring political unity

Washington surrenders at Fort Necessity

1760-69 South Carolina Regulation: unrest in the backcountry

1763 Paxton Boys’ March: unrest in Pennsylvania

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


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