what important events happened in rhode island before 1775?
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['1614 - Dutch explorer Adriaen Block visited the island now named for him. ... ', '1708 - First census taken; population 7,181. ... ', '1776 - May 4 - The colony declared its independence. ... ', '1790 -', '1812 - Rhode Island refused to participate in the War of 1812. ... ', '1910 - Population over 540,000.']
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On this day: “No taxation without representation!” The Stamp Act Congress met on this day in New York in 1765, a meeting that led nine Colonies to declare the English Crown had no right to tax Americans who lacked representation in British Parliament.
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Britain imposes the Stamp Act on the American colonists. Boston Massacre: English troops fire on a group of people protesting English taxes. Boston Tea Party: English tea is thrown into the harbor to protest a tax on tea. Fighting at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, marks the beginning of the American Revolution.
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['1605 The gunpowder plot, a Catholic conspiracy to blow up parliament, is discovered.', '1608 John Milton is born.', 'George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham is assassinated in Portsmouth.', 'The English Civil War between king and parliament begins. ... ', '1643 Isaac Newton is born.']
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The Rhode Island Colony was classified as one of the New England Colonies. The Province of Rhode Island was an English colony in North America that existed from 1636 until 1776, when it joined the other 12 of the 13 colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S. state of Rhode Island.
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The Second Continental Congress. After violence broke out between Britain and its American colonies in 1775, delegates from the thirteen colonies met in Philadelphia to plot the course of war—and soon, independence.
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Events that led to the Boston Massacre. Since 1765 the people of Boston had been heading protests against British taxation, first against the Stamp Act and then in 1767 against the Townshend Acts. ... On October 1768 troops arrived in Boston requested by Governor Francis Bernard.
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New England is the oldest clearly defined region of the United States, and it predates the American Revolution by more than 150 years. The English Pilgrims were Puritans fleeing religious persecution in England who established the Plymouth Colony in 1620, the first colony in New England and the second in America.
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Just prior to declaring independence, the Thirteen Colonies consisted of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
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The Rhode Island Colony was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams and other colonists, such as Anne Hutchinson at Providence. Named "Roodt Eylandt" by Adrian Block, the Dutch explorer. The meaning of the name is "red island" referring to the red clay that lined the shore.
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History of Earthquakes in Massachusetts The most storied earthquake in the history of the northeastern U.S. is the one that occurred about 4:30 a.m. on November 18, 1755. ... The 1755 earthquake followed an earlier strong shock that was centered near Newburyport, MA on October 29, 1727 on the Julian calendar.
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['The Founding of the Colonies. ... ', 'French and Indian War. ... ', 'Taxes, Laws, and More Taxes. ... ', 'Protests in Boston. ... ', 'Intolerable Acts. ... ', 'Boston Blockade. ... ', 'Growing Unity Among the Colonies. ... ', 'First Continental Congress.']
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['New England Colonies – Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.', 'Middle Colonies – New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.', 'Southern Colonies – Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.']
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Hartford Convention, (December 15, 1814–January 5, 1815), in U.S. history, a secret meeting in Hartford, Connecticut, of Federalist delegates from Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont who were dissatisfied with Pres.
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Dutch ceded Negapatnam to Britain. The American Revolutionary War was a war fought between Great Britain and the original 13 British colonies in North America. The war took place from 1775 to 1783 with fighting in North America and other places.
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1664- The British Army gained control of New Netherland and changed name to New York 1765-NYC hosts 1st Colonial Congress to discuss the King of England's Stamp Act 1776- New York declares independence on July 9 and becomes one of the original 13 states 1777- New York's 1st Constitution 1783- Last British troops leave ...
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1619: The Year That Shaped America. Four hundred years ago this year, two momentous events happened in Britain's fledgling colony in Virginia: the New World's first democratic assembly convened, and an English privateer brought kidnapped Africans to sell as slaves. Such were the conflicted origins of modern America.