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Virginia House of Burgesses
The Virginia Company ended monopoly on land ownership. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony . The new settlers arrived at New Plymouth in November of 1620. They had traveled across the ocean on the Mayflower, ship. They realized they were not in London and made there own laws for the benefit of the settlement. They agreed to a government with the power to the p
"for the generall good of the Colonie, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience."
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French and Indian War
War between, Great Britain and France in North America. Known as Seven Years' War. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was a direct tax appointed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. The Stamp Act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London and carrying an embossed revenue stamp which proved you had paid the tax.
"For every piece of parchment on which shall be printed,written,or typed any declaration or any copy in any court within British colonies or America, a stamp duty of three pence." -
Boston Tea Party
The colonists dress up like Indians and dump trunks of British tea overboard the ship it came on. This was a protest against the taxes imposed. -
Patrick Henry-"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"
In this speech, Patrick Henry expresses his viewpoints about what it means to be free.
"The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us..Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! " -
Battles at Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military involvments of the American Revolutionary War.
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Decleration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a statement by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and were no longer a part of the British Empire.
