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mre

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Post 10 of the most important events in the decade assigned.  Explain each briefly (descriptively and in context of other events, individuals and issues of that time). 

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Kelsey Smith

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1750: Slavery was legal in all of the 13 colonies of America.

1750: First Mechanical limb is built.

1751: The 1st performing monkey exhibited in America was in NYC.

1755: The French and Indian Wars began in the U.S.

1756: The Seven Years War broke out.

1756: The war was officially declared between the French and British.

1757: Beginning of British Empire in India.

1758: First African American to graduate from the western hemisphere.

1759: The French defeated European Allies in Battle of Bergen.

1759: British capture Quebec from French.



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Julia

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Who was the first African American to graduate from the western hemisphere?

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JESSICA

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confusedKelsey Smith wrote:

1750:Slavery was legal in all of the 13 colonies of America ..blahblah


Since Slavery was Legal in all of the 13 colonies in American why do you think that slavery eventually caused an increasement of controversy between the so-called Southern states and Northern States. Why do you think that the Northern States decided to become free states ?



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Brandi

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March 20, 1760- The "Great Fire" of Boston destroys 349 buildings

Nov. 1, 1965- The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to pay for British military operations in North America

Ongoing events:
French and Indian War (1754-1763)
Seven Years' War (1756-1763)

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Amanda

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Julia wrote:

Who was the first African American to graduate from the western hemisphere?






Frances Williams was the first African American to graduate in the western hemisphere and he also published a collection of Latin poems.

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melanie<3

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1750- Jonathan Edwards is dismissed from his Northamton (Mass.) church when he rejects the liberal "halfway covenant".

1754- Colonies adopt Benjamin Franklin's "Plan of the Union" of English colonies

1758- Jonathan Edwards becomes president of the college of New Jersey, later know as Princton University 

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Kelsey Smith

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1750- The first Government House was built in Montserrat.

1752- A Militia Act passed.

1755- Yellow fever epidemic hits Montserrat.

1756- The Seven Years War breaks out in Europe

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The Battle of Bergen was a battle of the Seven Years' War fought near Frankfurt-am-Main on April 13, 1759, between the French army under the Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie and an allied army consisting of British, Hanoverian, Hessian, and Brunswick troops commanded by Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick.



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s.bailey

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1750: First Mechanical limb is built."- kelsey

like a prosthetic limb, or like a robot arm to work in factories?



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