Newspapers in colonial America -- Censorship, printing control, and freedom of the press, 1690 -- Inoculation controversy, 1721 -- Impartiality, objectivity, and the press, 1729 -- Attakulakula visits King George II, 1730: Native American-English relations -- Trial of John Peter Zenger, 1735 -- Women's rights, 1738 -- Stono Rebellion, 1739 -- Great Awakening and George Whitefield, 1739-1745 -- Religious divisions, 1740-1745 -- Massachusetts legalizes lotteries, 1744 -- Medical discoveries and the amazing "Chinese stones," 1745 -- Paper money and the Currency Act, 1751 -- New York public education controversy, 1753-1755 -- Albany Congress, the Plan of Union, and the French and Indian War, 1754-1763 -- Cherokee War, 1759-1761 -- Stamp Act crisis, 1765-1766 -- "No taxation without representation," 1765-1766 -- The Sons of Liberty, 1765-1776 -- Tories versus patriots, 1768-1775 -- Nonimportation agreements, 1768-1775 -- Boston Massacre, 1770 -- Religious liberty: Baptists call for toleration, 1770-1776 -- Somerset case and the anti-slavery controversy, 1772 -- Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party, 1773-1774 -- Continental Congress, 1774-1775 -- Edenton Tea Party and perceptions of women, 1774 -- Arguments over going to war with England, 1774-1776 -- Separation from England, 1768-1776 -- Battles of Lexington and Concord, 1775 -- Declaration of Independence, 1776.
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