1. Rachel Mrs. Branin 5 th grade

2. 1729 1729  Ben Franklin founds Philadelphia’s first newspaper. He established the first fire department, police force, public library, and Philadelphia’s first college now called the University of Pennsylvania.

3. 1735 1735  Trail of John Peter Zenger.  The Zenger trial is a remarkable story of a divided Colony, the beginnings of a free press.

4. 1739 1739  Stone slave rebellion in South Carolina. In the rebellion, 30 colonists were killed. The rebellion might have been caused by the Security Act, which happened a month earlier.

5. 1744 1744  Eliza Lucas Pinckney successfully grows indigo.  Southern plantations grew tobacco, rice, and indigo, which they sold to buyers in England and elsewhere in America.

6. 1750 1750  The colonies have 250,000 enslaved persons. However, in the north there weren’t as many enslaved persons.

7. 1760 1760  More Europeans arrive in the colonies.  By 1770, more than 2 million people lived and worked in Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies.  Colonists from all over Europe were welcomed in the Middle Colonies.  Europeans who settled in the Middle Colonies included: Dutch, German Scottish, Irish, Portuguese, Swedish, and English immigrants.

8. 1775 1775  Philadelphia is the largest colonial city. The population had grown to 35,000. It was also a city that had a lot of tolerance in the area.

9. 1720-1765 1720-1765 The Colonial Economies  Agriculture People did agriculture, which is also known as the business of farming, in the early 1700s. So many people did agriculture, mostly to feed their families.  Industry Industries were used to compete with the English. An example is shipbuilding. Shipbuilding was a very important industry back then.  Free Enterprise Shipbuilding took a step forward to having a free enterprise which is when people can start any business they want and what to do.

10. 1750-1770 1750-1770 Colonial Governments  Assembly An assembly is a lawmaking body. Assemblies were elected in every colony by 1760. They made a lot of important laws there.  Legislation Legislation is the making or passing of laws. The colonists did legislation to decide how tax money would be spent.  Delegates Delegates are members of an assembly who were either wealthy landowners, lawyers, or merchants.