AP U.S. History Timeline: Major Protests/Revolts of the 1600s-1700s

Created 2006 (Mr. Broach)

Native American

Political/Social

African Slavery

1622 – Powhatan Uprising (or War) – Powhatan Native American tribe attacked Jamestown settlers (decade of hostilities)

1636-1637 – Pequot War – Pequot tribe rebels against westward movement by New England Puritans; Pequot crushed in Connecticut (settlement burned)

1636-1638 – Religious dissenters in Massachusetts flee or are expelled from the colony.

Roger Williams – founds Providence, Rhode Island

Thomas Hooker – founds Hartford, Connecticut

Anne Hutchinson – banished to Rhode Island; later moves to Dutch New Netherlands (N.Y.)

1675-1676 – King Philip’s War – Wampanoag tribe and others rebel against Massachusetts and Plymouth colonies (led by Metacom, a.k.a. King Philip). Last major Indian War in New England; tribes almost wiped out (driven from region).

1676 – Bacon’s Rebellion – Major event, review: causes, results, results for future slavery, problems with former indentured servants, class structure in colonial Virginia

1680 – Pueblo Rebellion (or Popé’s Rebellion) in New Mexico – revolt against Spanish; Spanish driven out until 1692 (revolt was a reaction to forced assimilation to Spanish culture and Catholicism)

1686-1688 – New England colonists restrict provisions of the Navigation Acts and Sir Edmund Andros’ Dominion of New England (Dominion dissolved and tension declined after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the beginning of “salutary neglect”)

1712 – Slave Rebellion in New York City (rebels are tortured to death)

1733 – Molasses Act passed by Parliament (protested by colonists; American merchants turned to smuggling, which was common during “salutary neglect”)

1739 – Stono Slave Rebellion (slaves from Charleston, SC rebelled and tried to march to Spanish Florida for protection; rebellion failed)

1763 – Pontiac’s Rebellion – Chief Pontiac organized rebellion against British (and British colonists). In a supposed peace offering, British gave rebelling Indians blankets laced with small pox. (also helps cause the Proclamation of 1763)

Colonial Revolts/Rebellions 1763-1776

• 1764 – boycotts/resolutions to protest the Sugar Act
• 1765 – Stamp Act Congress and Virginia Resolutions in response to the Stamp Act and Quartering Act
• 1767 – NY Assembly suspended for ignoring the Quartering Act
• 1767 – John Dickinson’s “Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania” to protest Townshend Duties
• 1767 – Colonists respond with boycotts and non-importation agreements to the Townshend Acts (Duties)
• 1770 – Boston Massacre
• 1772 – Committees of Correspondence organized by Samuel Adams and others throughout the colonies (partly in response to the changing of salary control for governors and officials to the King, instead of the colonial assemblies)
• 1773 – Boston Tea Party occurs in response to the Tea Act (also occurs in other port cities)
• 1774 – First Continental Congress organized in response to Intolerable/Coercive Acts (includes Quebec Act, Boston Port Act, new Quarting Act)
• 1775 – Battles at Lexington and Concord begin War for Independence
• 1776 – Declaration of Independence

1786-1787 – Shays Rebellion in Massachusetts (small farmers protesting high taxes; revolt squashed, but incident leads to the desire for a central government and the calling of the Constitutional Convention of 1787)

1794 – Whiskey Rebellion – Pennsylvania farmers rebel against new excise tax on whiskey (see Alexander Hamilton’s Financial Program); rebels disperse when Washington and Hamilton themselves march troops to western Pennsylvania