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The founding of America's first permanant English colony.
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First meeting of the Virginia House of Burgesses.
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Nathaniel Bacon orders his rebels to lay seige to the capitol.
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Series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft.
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His libel suit established the first very important victory for freedom of the press in the English colonies of North America.
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The beginning of the war between the colonies of British America and New France.
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The end of the war between the colonies of British America and New France.
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Issued by King George III following Great Britian's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years War, in which if forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Applicaians.
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Passed by British Parliment to empose tax on every paper good they used.
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Required colonists to provide any British soldier with any needed accomidations or housing.
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Parliment agreed to repeal the Stamp Act on the condition that the Declaratory Act was passed.
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British Army Soldiers killed five men and injured six others.
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The act was not intended to raise any revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new tax laws.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston.
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Met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia. All colonies sent delegates except for Georgia.
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The 2nd Continental Congress was a convention of delagates of the 13 colonies that started meeting soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.
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Declared the colonies as single independant states that did not affiliate themselves with the British Crown.