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Jamestown
first permanent English settlement in North America -
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U.S. History to 1877
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Virginia House of Burgesses
In Jamestown, Virginia, the first elected legislative assembly in the New World -
Mayflower Compact
first written framework of government established in what is now the United States. The compact was drafted to prevent dissent amongst Puritans and non-separatist Pilgrims who had landed at Plymouth a few days earlier. -
Boston Massacre
A squad of British soldiers, come to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling, snowballing crowd, let loose a volley of shots.The Boston Massacre is remembered as a key event in helping to galvanize the colonial public to the Patriot cause. -
First Continental Congress
The objectives of the body were not entirely clear but, with such leadership as was found there, a core set of tasks was carried out. It was agreeable to all that the King and Parliament must be made to understand the grievances of the colonies and that the body must do everything possible to communicate the same to the population of America, and to the rest of the world -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts.
