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1687 In August the towns of Ipswitch and Topsfield resisted assessments imposed by Governor Andros in protest of taxation without representation.
1688 In March, Gov. Andros imposed a limit of one annual town meeting for New England towns. The governor also orders all militias to be placed under his control.
1688 The Quakers in Pennsylvania issued a formal protest against slavery in America.
1688 In December, King James II of England fleed to France after being more or less gently kicked by some influential English leaders.
1689 In April, New England Gov. Andros was jailed by rebellious colonists in Boston. In July, the English government ordered Andros to be returned to England to stand trial.
1690 Was the beginning of King William's War as hostilities in Europe between the French and the English spilled over into the colonies.
1696 The Royal African Trade Company lost its slave trade monopoly, such spurred colonists in New England to engage in slave trading for profit.
1700 The Anglo population in the English was estimated at 250,000. Boston as the largest city had approx. 7000 people and New York as second largest counted about 5000.
1700 In June, Massachusetts passed a law ordering all Roman Catholic priests to leave the colony within three months, upon penalty of life imprisonment or execution. Soon after New York passed a similar law. Religious freedom was still far away.
1701 In July, the French established Detroit. In October Yale college was founded in Connecticut.
1702 In March, Queen Anne ascended the English throne. In May, England declared war on France after the death of the King of Spain Charles II, to stop the union between Spain and France. This war of Spanish Succession became also known as Queen Anne's War and in the colonies the English side by side with the American colonists battled the French, their Native American allies and the Spanish for the next 11 years.
1705 In Virginia, slaves were assigned the status of real estate by the Virginia Black Code of 1705. In New York, a law against runaway slaves assigned the death penalty for those caught over 40 miles north of Albany. Massachusetts declared marriage between African Blacks and whites illegal.
1713 Queen Anne's war ended with the Treaty of Utrecht.
1718 New Orleans was founded by the French.
1720 The population of American colonists reached approx 500,000. Boston was still the largest city with 12,000 people, followed by Philadelphia with about 10,000 and New York at approx. 7,000. The population of black slaves was given as approx. 75,000.
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