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Jamestwon
First succesful English settlement on the mainland of North America -
Virgina House of Burgess
first legisture in the english colonies, first order of business was to set the minimum sale for tobacco -
Mayflower Compact
Mayflower compact was signed on November 11, 1620. It was first written framework of government in what is now the US -
Bacons Rebellion
It was an armed rebellion by Virginia settlers led by Nethanial Bacon against the rule of governor William Berkeley. Marched to Jamestown and coerced Berkeley into granting him comision to continue his campains against the Native Americans. -
Salem Witch Trials
The daughter and niece of reverend Parris got sick. William Griggs diganosed the girls with bewitchment which resulted of hanging 19 men and women -
Trial of John Peterson Zenger
The trial of John Peter Zenger, a New York printer, was an important step toward this most precious freedom for American colonists. John Peter Zenger was a German immigrant who printed a publication called The New York Weekly Journal. -
French and Indian War
North American conflict that was part of a larger imperial conflict between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years’ War. It began in 1754 and ended in 1763. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was a proclamation that forbade all settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. This was founded by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War -
Quartering Act
Well, the Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the 18th century. Parliament caused them to order local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. This tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act was declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. The policy ignited a “powder keg” of opposition and resentment among American colonists and was the catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston". They got tired of the unessary taxation on tea and many other things. -
1st Continental Congress
The 1st Continental Congress was a type of meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
2nd Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.
