President:
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Pres: (Continental Congress) Henry Middleton
General
- Finance: Nonimportation of British goods to American colonies
- Land: British Quebec Act (prevent expansion into French territories) - Not anti-colonists, but Americans saw it as such
- Military: Lafayette becomes captain in Dragoons
- Natives: Yellow Creek Massacre of Chief Logan's family by Daniel Greathouse
- Politics: First Continental Congress convenes - called by Virginia House of Burgesses
British House of Commons refuses MA petition to remove Thomas Hutchinson as governor general
British make "Coercive Acts" (Intolerable Acts)
East
- Massachusetts: Coercive acts against MA include closing of port of Boston, Massachusetts charter revoked, town meetings forbidden
Importation of slaves banned
Suffolk Convention resolves to disregard coercive acts
British employ spies to find out level of unrest
- New York: Ann Lee settles and begins spiritual revival
- Pennsylvania: Continental Congress meets at Philadelphia
- Rhode Island: Slavery abolished