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The first permanent english settlement in the Americas
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The first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America
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The first written framework of government established in North America
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An armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
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a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.
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A journalist in New York who printed his opinion about govenor William Cosby, and was charged with libel.
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A war fought between British America and New France, At the start of the war, the French North American colonies had a population of roughly 60,000 European settlers, compared to 2 million in the British North American colonies.
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King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War, which forbade all settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.
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Parliament enacted them to order local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing.
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Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the sugar act.
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British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others.
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objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.
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was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company.
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Met at Carpenters Hall, the Congress met briefly to consider options, including an economic boycott of British trade
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managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence
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Announced that the thirteen American colonies, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
